brontë velez (they/elle) is a black-boricua transdisciplinary ritual artist, shepherd and cultural worker. their eco-social art praxis is an intergenerational prayer to resanctify labor with land through rebuking the hauntings slavery has had on our precious relations with earth-rooted ritual and craft. brontë’s ministry is committed to re-ecologizing the roots of pastoral care –  as shepherds who paid attention to the earth, followed the wisdom of their rhythms and patterns and through that devotional awareness received prophetic instructions for liberation. brontë practices pastoral care (in an ecological and ministerial sense) as a co-director of The School for Inclement Weather in Kashia Pomo territory in northern California and through serving as adult programs director and climate chaplain for climate preparedness program ATTUNE at Weaving Earth. brontë is currently an MDiv candidate at Duke Divinity and co-conjuring an absurdist opera with esperanza spalding about a frequency that can disarm.