For Us, By Us fellow Diana Diroy was awarded a CCI Investing in Artists: Artistic Innovation Grant for her project, Seeds of Ancestral Memory. This grant supports diverse Bay Area working artists who are developing new work in the performing or media arts that pushes the envelope of their creative process, explores new artistic collaborations, and/or supports artistic growth and experimentation that extends the boundaries of their art-making.
Seeds of Ancestral Memory is a documentary exploring how immigrants, refugees and their descendants living in the Bay Area are cultivating seeds and growing heritage crops from their homelands to feed their kin and communities.