Member artist Eliaichi Kimaro was recently a guest on the Future Tripping Podcast, a project of the Trauma Stewardship Institute. The host, Laura van Dernoot Lipsky, is an author/activist, an internationally recognized leader in the field of trauma exposure, and one of Eli’s dearest friends. As such, she holds all the pieces of Eli’s personal, family, work and creative life. At its core, their conversation reveals the depth and breadth of “making art to better understand my cultural inheritance and legacy,” and shows why art – the creation and maintenance of it – can be an essential act of liberation.