My name is Joshua J. Ramirez and I am the founder and executive director of Saint Remy Arts & Culture, a LatinX led 501c3 organization with a mission to provide transformative spaces for individuals with mental illness, PTSD, and suicidal thoughts through art and advocacy. At Saint Remy, we believe in cultivating safe and authentic spaces that builds trust and connection with the community we serve, in an effort to raise the visibility of unseen and unheard communities. Through the tenants of empathy, compassion, and transparency, we provide free culturally responsive visual and performative classes and workshops that foster growth, healing, and recovery through art.

As a people first organization, it is important to liberate economic resources and provide them to invisible communities. There is an element of activism in everything we do, and through long term and consistent efforts, we have built strong relationships with the mental health community and partnering organizations, such as Tri-City Mental Health, NAMI, LGBTQ+ Center, MOMA, Mental Health America of LA and many more. Through our social justice-based initiatives, we wish to continually expand our reach, while continuing to provide free visual and performative art services to the homeless/unhoused, veterans, LGBTQ+, the neurodivergent community.