So, now what?
Heritage Reconnection is the ongoing process of building, rebuilding, strengthening, or deepening your relationship with your cultural heritage and deciding what that connection means in your life now.
Start with what you already have. Understand what shaped you. Deepen your connection. Decide what you want to pass on.
Start with what you have →Create meaningful cultural experiences that build self-awareness, deepen understanding across differences, and strengthen human connection.
Explore Speaking →Your response will help inform the annual State of Heritage Reconnection report, which explores how people are connecting and reconnecting with their cultural heritage.
Discovery tells you where you come from.
Genealogy can uncover names, places, records, relationships, and family stories.
Reconnection asks what you’ll do with it.
Understand what it means now, consider your relationship with it, and decide what comes next.
I bring Heritage Reconnection to life through speaking, interactive experiences, and facilitated conversations that help people move from knowing about heritage to actively engaging with it.
That can mean understanding what shaped them, exploring Heritage Fragments, and deciding what comes next.
For organizations, that becomes meaningful cultural programming that creates space for reflection, deeper understanding across differences, and stronger human connection.
What happens after you learn something new about where you come from?
Heritage, Identity & Belonging: Beyond the Labels
A Heritage Fragment might be a word you still say. A dish you still make. A name. A photograph. A place. A family story you half remember. Or something you notice is missing.
Heritage Fragments are tangible and intangible pieces of culture, family, history, and identity that we inherit, live with, discover, recognize, or notice are missing.
Looking closely at one fragment can open a much larger story about where you come from, what shaped you, and what you may want to preserve, reshape, or pass on.
You do not need the whole story to begin. You can start with what you already have.
Explore Heritage Fragments →
Create space for reflection, cultural connection, and deeper understanding.
3 Steps to Start Reclaiming Your Roots, Even When You Feel Like You’re Not Enough
A practical mini-guide to help you move past uncertainty, find a meaningful place to begin, and start reconnecting with your heritage in a way that feels real, personal, and doable.
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Find more free tools on the Resources page →Who we are, where we come from, and how we reconnect.
Stories and conversations about how people reconnect with their cultural heritage and what it means to them.
“I’m a person of the diaspora, and the diaspora is in me.”
Dr. Omowale Crenshaw
Tami Dee García
Language • Cultural Identity & Belonging
Tami tells her own story of growing up cut off from her Dominican and Jamaican heritage.
Watch → How Can a García Not Speak Spanish?Aselefech Evans
Adoption • Cultural Identity & Belonging
An Ethiopian adoptee was told not to say she was Oromo, and it took 30 years to claim it.
Watch → She Hid Her Oromo Identity for 30 Years. Then She Learned Why.Hilary Giovale
Difficult Inheritance • Family History & Genealogy
A ninth-generation settler learned her ancestors gained from stolen land and enslaved labor, and chose repair.
Watch → The Amnesia of WhitenessPrefer audio? Listen on Spotify · Apple Podcasts · Amazon Music · iHeartRadio
Rediscovering Your Roots is a practical guide for anyone who wants to reconnect with, deepen, or better understand their cultural heritage.
Whether you are just beginning to explore, ready to go deeper, helping someone you love connect with their heritage, or thinking about what you want to preserve and pass on, the book can help. It offers reflection, stories, exercises, prompts, and practical tools.
I call my family
I grew up knowing very little about my Dominican and Jamaican heritage. As a young adult, I began intentionally reconnecting with it. Later, becoming the mother of an Ethiopian daughter made questions of heritage, access, identity, and what we pass on even more personal.
Explore My Story →“It’s inspired, instructive, and ultimately a lesson on keeping your culture vibrant… It’s the kind of book you’ll revisit again and again.”
“I can’t tell you how many times I’ve thought I was a cultural imposter… You had me at ‘cultural imposter.’”
Explore your own relationship with heritage, help someone you love strengthen theirs, or bring Heritage Reconnection to your organization.
