An edible garden is a classroom. A flea market has flair and good deals. A hawk teaches perspective, as do family experiences of racist incarceration and child sex abuse. A migrating professor finds wisdom where it lives and as it grows.

I am the daughter of two peoples who survived genocide in the last three generations, being Jewish via my mother's bloodline and Boricua via my father's. My single mother was an incest survivor who raised me on dreams, hard work, and welfare. My father was always missing, homeless, or incarcerated. My name is Darshan Elena Campos.

I hold a PhD from the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz where I studied with people like Neferti Tadiar, Andrea Smith, Angela Y. Davis, Noelani Goodyear–Ka'ōpua, Rosa-Linda Fregoso, Amelie Hastie, and Donna Haraway. For fifteen years, I worked as a migrating professor between schools such as UCSC, Mills College, and Stanford University. In 2014, I was recognized as a Fulbright Specialist in Education for my work with youth of color and migrant/refugee students. In 2017, I went to Colombia on the Fulbright to share expertise with educators in small towns, major cities, and autonomous Indigenous communities.

I have been the target of hackers for the last five years, ever since learning my husband was a sexual predator. He works at Google, a company that has been actively protecting him and other abusers. I now work largely outside the formal economy. I live in public housing and survive on food stamps in Puerto Rico, the world's oldest colony whose true name is Borikén.

In 2016, after failing to succeed in racist business school and becoming increasingly fearful for my own life, I dedicated myself to developing a method to decolonize business education and social enterprise. I spent three years traveling across Turtle Island and Abya Yala to learn about rematriation and study alternative currencies in action. I learned timebanking in Black St. Louis, for example. In deeply colonized Louisa County, VA, I Iearned seedbanking and the delights, dangers, and costs of dumpster diving.

The result is a method of radical business creation for divas, homies, misfits, refugees, and Native Peoples called #DecolonialBiznessWorld and its sister projects such as #DecolonizationIn28Steps and #ReparationsIn21Steps. I am using this method as the heart of a free and open Migrating University and Decolonial Business Academy in Cabo Rojo, where the very first colonial business in the "New World" was founded by invaders working on behalf of the Spanish Royal Family in 1511.

The salt flats in Cabo Rojo are just steps from my home. These mines produced salt and vibrant seafaring traditions for centuries before conquest and colonialism. Salt preserved fish and other foods for long voyages, which Indigenous Caribbean Islanders used for travel across thousands and thousands of miles of ocean and river. In 1511, the mine came under imperial Spanish dominion.

Profit from the salt mines stoked greed, genocide, and colonial expansion. Not only was the mine formally incorporated in 1511, but that year also marked the start of the the Spanish and Taíno War of San Juan–Borikén. It was here, in the town of Cabo Rojo, around this same time that smallpox first appeared in the western hemisphere. In the 1520s, the island was baptized as Puerto Rico, meaning "rich port" in large measure for the growing financial wealth produced in the salt mines and other colonial enterprises such as the trading of humans made into slaves.

It is time to change the course of history.

Today, the salt mines are a natural preserve as well as a commercial enterprise that provides salt used to melt snow in colder regions. They are also being flooded due to global and growing climate emergency, while the island's residents are being displaced by the global debt regime as well as fiscal crises spawned by Hurricane Maria in 2017 and the thousands of earthquakes rocking the region, especially in neighboring municipalities such as Lajas, Guánica, Ponce, Maricao, Yauco, Peñuelas, and Guayanilla.

With a total of $7K, I can afford basic monthly expenses for all of 2020 and continue to develop curriculum for rematriation, decolonization, and reparations. This includes operating a pollinator refuge and community garden in my public housing complex and guiding other people through the process of decolonial business creation. I am currently guiding five people on the island of Borikén and several people in the diaspora. I also teach freely via social networks such as LinkedIn and Instagram, despite having been hacked and sexually solicited on both networks.

With a total of $70K, I can hire a radical bookkeeper to help me engage in publicly transparent financing for all my teaching and live a more stable life. I can also return to Cahokia, which colonizers named St. Louis, to research the legacy and daily impacts of Henry Shaw, the city's most esteemed philanthropist. Shaw made his wealth by selling scalping knives, guns, and ammunition to settlers and the U.S. armory and owned people made into slaves. He erected the oldest standing statue of Christopher Columbus in the United States — despite Columbus never setting boots in that region — which many local residents seek to dismantle from Tower Grove Park. Shaw founded the Missouri Botanical Garden, which proudly partners with Monsanto, and helped launch the Missouri Historical Society and Washington University's School of Botany.

With $150,000, I can plan a trip to Living Energy Farm and welcome people from diverse climates to join me in adapting the farm's community energy grid. Using solar power and batteries that last for 100 years (the prototype is a signed Edison battery that remains operational after more than 100 years of use!), the grid promotes regenerative energy use. The goal is to adapt the grid for arctic, tropical, and desert climates as well as diverse settings such as rural, suburban, and mountainous and make it fit into four to six backpacks should a community need to dismantle the grid in preparation for a hurricane, wildfire, or bombing campaign. I also want to share prototypes of the grid with five to seven different communities to gather information about wider adaptation. These communities are located in Puerto Rico, California, Michigan, Missouri, and New York. The people who help me adapt the system will serve as the leaders for community prototyping and receive a free energy grid as well as paid time and travel expenses at Living Energy Farm during our collaborative adaptation sessions.

With $600,000, I can formally organize a Migrating University and Decolonial Business Academy that runs on love and publicly transparent financing and charges zero tuition and fees to learners in Cabo Rojo. The Migrating University teaches geologic, Indigenous, and local living histories from the standpoint of community resilience to the climate emergency. Based on Borikén, the world's oldest colony that most people call Puerto Rico, the school migrates across the island and broader Caribbean archipelago. The Decolonial Business Academy helps people to design and elevate ecologically regenerative businesses that have a transparent, formal plan to exit the global oil and gas regime and end white supremacy and toxic masculinity in their everyday operations.

Please support me in sharing this work freely with people in frontline communities for justice and healing.