Next River is an institute for practicing the future.

Imagine a future where we all have what we need to live a life rich with wellbeing. Everyone is housed with nutritious food to eat and clean air to breathe. When conflicts inevitably arise, we use transformative justice to make amends. There is accessible healthcare for all our bodies, minds, and spirits. We live in right relationship with the land and other living beings. 

This liberated future is on its way. But only if we make it. 

Next River is working to create the cultural conditions necessary for a truly free world to emerge—starting by enabling a changed national belief about freedom.

We are devoted to the collective work of getting free.

To leap into a future rich with collective wellbeing, we must pick up the mantle of freedom from our abolitionist ancestors. Not the individualistic freedom of America’s founding mythologies, but the interconnected freedom described by Fannie Lou Hamer, who reminded us: “Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.”

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