About

The Altar America Project is an ancestor and cultural remembrance celebration where participants create altars to express their culture and remember their loved ones who have passed away.

This celebration brings together people from diverse backgrounds to express their cultures, cope with the trauma of loss, and forge new cultural bonds.

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The Altar America Project was founded by Barrett Holmes Pitner.

Barrett Holmes Pitner is a philosopher, writer, educator, and journalist. Author of “The Crime Without a Name: Ethnocide and the Erasure of Culture,” and The Reconstructionist, and founder of the Sustainable Culture Lab, Pitner has been a contributing columnist for The Daily Beast, The BBC, The Guardian, The Daily Dot, The Huffington Post, and other publications. He currently teaches journalism at George Washington University.