Project
Jambalaya Center
Land and Cultural Reunion:
Black Land and Liberation
The manifestation of visionary Yeye Luisa Teish, the Jambalaya Center is an expression of ancestral resilience and spiritual continuity. For centuries in the United States, African Diasporic spiritual traditions were criminalized through slave codes and other laws, forcing practitioners to hold their ceremonies in secrecy. These traditions survived not through permission, but through the courage and resistance of the African Diaspora across generations.
The Center for Ethical Land Transition has been honored to accompany Yeye Luisa Teish—Elder, spiritual activist, Priestess of Oshun in the Ifá tradition, writer, and artist—in the realization of her decades-long vision. After more than a year of accompaniment, the Jambalaya Center for Ancient Mysteries and Sacred Arts emerged as an Afro-Indigenous spiritual sanctuary, closing escrow on September 30, 2025.
We celebrate Yeye’s intergenerational vision to steward Land as spiritual home and sanctuary for ancestral and cultural healing. In a time of accelerating erasure of Black history, we affirm the vital role of Elders, storytelling, and the practice of Sankofa—honoring what has come before so that future generations may thrive.
