Our Story
About Casa Caracol
Community healing and liberation, rooted in culture and held in care.
Founder & Community Weaver
Ana Miriam
Ana Miriam is a community weaver, and she is currently the Founder and Creative Director of Casa Caracol. She holds many intersectionalities as a queer Chicana who migrated to the United States at the age of 10.
Her work is influenced by the thousands of stories she has heard from undocumented immigrants: from interviewing farm workers in her hometown Anderson Valley to countless encounters in university offices and k-12 classrooms across the country.
Fully understanding the direct impact of family separation, she now travels as a form of liberation and hopes to create beautiful spaces for others to experience the world. Her proudest accomplishment is growing in community and collectively creating spaces that advocate for equity and liberation.
Our Mission
"Casa Caracol exists to create conditions for communities to heal, connect, and imagine liberation together."
We believe healing is collective. We believe rest is resistance. We believe culture is medicine. And we believe our communities deserve spaces that reflect that.
What We Stand On
Our Values
Community Care
We are accountable to each other. Care is not a transaction — it is a practice.
Cultural Rootedness
Our healing frameworks draw from ancestral wisdom, not just Western psychology.
Accessibility
Sliding scale pricing and no-barrier policies mean no one is turned away for lack of funds.
Political Clarity
We name systems of harm. Healing without analysis of power is incomplete.
Embodied Practice
The body holds memory. Our work includes somatic, ceremonial, and movement practices.
Queer & Feminist
We center queer and feminist frameworks of care, consent, and collective liberation.