Founded in 1998, PVI has responded to the Valley’s evolving demographic landscape, such as the arrival of ethnically and linguistically diverse indigenous migrants from Mexico and Central America, Southeast Asia, and more recently, refugee families arriving from the Middle East. PVI’s work is well-known for its cross-generational approaches, emphasizing women, youth, and Indigenous populations. 

PVI is an immigrant-led, popular education organization based in Fresno, California. It emphasizes women, youth, and Indigenous populations and expands its cross-generational work to other counties in the San Joaquin Valley, including Tulare, Merced, and Madera. We foster active citizenship and offer intergenerational learning spaces for immigrants and refugees to realize their possibilities of becoming social actors of change.

We create places where immigrants and refugees can learn from each other, develop a sense of belonging, reclaim their cultural rights, and prepare for building caring and culturally thriving communities. The work is guided by popular education, cultural exchange, participatory action research, and decolonial pedagogy principles.