Core Offerings

How I Work

I center collaboration, curiosity, and care. I honor the timelines of spirit and land, not just deadlines. Every engagement is co-shaped and custom-designed. Sliding scale and reparative rates available for Indigenous, Black, People of the Global South, and community-rooted projects.

  • We are storied beings. I support Culture Bearers, artists, and mission-driven groups to clarify their narratives, honor cultural memory, and tell stories that move hearts and shift systems.

    Ideal for: narrative design, storytelling frameworks, and storytelling cohort design.

  • Creating sacred space in professional settings. I facilitate gatherings that foster healing, clarity, and transformation—from community circles to institutional retreats. I also co-design values-rooted curriculum that blends cultural knowledge, activations, and participatory learning.


    Ideal for: fellowship programs, cohort design, community dialogues, staff retreats.

  • Designing future-aligned roadmaps with soul. I work with teams to co-create strategic frameworks, organizational visions, and implementation plans rooted in values, community knowledge, and emergent possibility.

    Ideal for: strategic planning, retreat facilitation, theory of change development.

  • We treat program design as a living practice—one that listens deeply, adapts to collective rhythms, and nurtures sustainable ecosystems of care. Grounded in ancestral frameworks and community-centered learning, our approach weaves liberatory pedagogy, cultural context, and creative strategy to cultivate programs that are as visionary as they are rooted.

    Ideal for: Cohort-based learning models, equity-informed grantmaking programs, fellowships, creative leadership pipelines, emergent curriculum development, and ritual-centered educational design.

  • We treat program design as a living practice—one that listens deeply, adapts to collective rhythms, and nurtures sustainable ecosystems of care. Grounded in ancestral frameworks and community-centered learning, our approach weaves liberatory pedagogy, cultural context, and creative strategy to cultivate programs that are as visionary as they are rooted.

    Ideal for:
    Cohort-based learning models, equity-informed grantmaking programs, fellowships, creative leadership pipelines, emergent curriculum development, and ritual-centered educational design.

  • I speak on liberatory program, curriculum and evaluation design, ancestral futurism, cultural healing, and speculative practice.

Let’s begin

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Dialogue and Program Samples

Collective Joy Project: Grief as a Pathway to Joy

Instagram Live Conversation | June 2025

mariana moscoso developed and designed the Collective Joy Project for the California Humanities. It is an ongoing cultural initiative rooted in the belief that joy is not the opposite of grief—but its kin. It invites cultural workers, artists, and community members into a live and living exploration of the humanities as a tool for collective care, meaning-making, and world-building.

Originally streamed live on Instagram | Duration: 31 minutes

Speakers: Katherine Bahena-Benitez and mariana moscoso

Arts in Corrections Creative Uplift

Virtual Conversation | October 2020

In a virtual conversation for the California Arts Council's Creative Uplift series, facilitated by Arts in Corrections Manager Mariana Moscoso and Program Analyst Roman Sanchez, AIC Coordinating Organizations Associate Director Marlene McCurtis, of TheatreWorkers Project in Los Angeles; and Eli Wirschafter, of KALW's Uncuffed podcast in San Francisco; together with former AIC participants Thon Bun and Louie Brash; discuss the impact of Arts in Corrections as a vehicle for growth, how the pandemic has shifted programming, and art as a leader and guide for change.