Phalarope empowers Indigenous and rural youth to become change makers, harnessing science, culture, technology, and community leadership to build healthier, stronger futures.

Through our Tierra Viva initiative, and related youth leadership programs, students in rural and Indigenous communities engage in hands-on STEM projects, digital literacy training, environmental innovation, and intergenerational knowledge exchange. Young people learn to explore public health challenges, regenerative agriculture, data mapping, and community care navigation — preparing them to lead across domains of health, land, opportunity and equity.

From developing simple experiments and observing plant ecosystems to designing digital tools that map community health and land use, our youth become problem solvers who understand that thriving communities depend on culture, land, technology and collaboration. By blending ancestral wisdom with modern science, we nurture a generation of youth who see themselves not just as students, but as architects of community well-being and sustainable systems.