“Speed of Trust: A Story of Healing, Collaboration, & Systems Change in Southeast Alaska” follows the Sustainable Southeast Partnership, a dynamic collective-impact network across the homelands of the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian Peoples. Uniting diverse skills and perspectives, the SSP strengthens cultural, ecological, and economic prosperity through a vision of self-determined communities inspired by Indigenous values. Rooted in these values for over 15 years, the network addresses interconnected issues like economic development, climate adaptation, cultural revitalization, and healing—proving that transformation happens at the pace of trust and relationship. Supported by the growing endowment Seacoast Trust, the SSP ensures long-term regional abundance and disaster resilience, transforming a history of conflict into a future of collaboration in one of the world’s most ecologically significant coastal temperate rainforests.

As the second volume, penned by SSP Communications Catalyst Shaelene Grace Moler and prepared by Indigenous Entrepreneur Chloey Cavanaugh, “Speed of Trust” builds on Peter Forbes’ 2018 publication, “Finding Balance at the Speed of Trust,” chronicling the SSP’s growth, successes, and challenges of the last eight years from the perspective of a young Indigenous woman impacted by and working within the Partnership. Read more about it in the Juneau Empire and on our Website.