Our Story - Title Track

our mission

Engaging creative practice to build resilient social-ecological systems that support clean water, racial equity, and youth empowerment.

As the result of years of team building and receiving the legacy of the Neahtawanta Research and Education Center, Title Track launched on Earth Day 2019 to bring enriching collaborative programs and content benefitting people and place. Founded by Michigan singer-songwriter and activist, Seth Bernard, Title Track offers a broad set of programming built upon the diverse strengths and experience of its team. From Racial Justice trainings in Northern Michigan, to Indigenous-led youth music and nature camps in Flint, to the State of Water podcast and the Clean Water Campaign mini-documentary series, Title Track’s offerings are vibrant expressions of its mission, infused with creativity and passion.

Title Track Director Samuel Seth Bernard

“I see a great need for people to be able to come together to engage in meaningful, restorative experiences and to work for the common good in these times. Great challenges must be faced and embraced with a sense of imagination and possibility. Old systems of oppression and exploitation need to be healed. Young people need to be seen and supported. ‘Title Track’ brings together many strands of the collaborative work for change I’ve been engaged in for the last two decades, and I’m thrilled to be launching this fresh new organization with a diverse, multi-generational group of change agents.

We are deeply honored to be carrying on the legacy of the Neahtawanta Research and Education Center, an organization co-founded by my mentors Sally Van Vleck, who is on our board of directors, and her late husband Bob Russell. We’re coming together with a powerful network of partners to use creativity to work for clean water, racial equity and youth empowerment.”

-Seth Bernard, Title Track Founder and Co-Executive Director

“When the board of directors and I reached the decision that the Neahtawanta Research and Education Center had come to the end of its time as an organization, we wanted to choose an organization to be the recipient of our assets and legacy.

The decision to choose ‘Title Track’ was unanimous. We see a vibrant, regional, activist organization that will take the essence of the work that NREC focused on over the years and expand upon it in creative and innovative ways. We couldn’t be more proud and thrilled to pass the torch to ‘Title Track’ with our blessings.”

Sally Van Vleck, Title Track Board Member
& Neahtawanta Research and Education Center founder

We invite you to explore the rich legacy of the Neahtawanta Research and Education Center!

Sally Van Vleck & Bob Russell
Neahtawanta Research and Education Center Co-Founders

Board & Staff

Title Track’s board & staff bring together a broad range of experiences & backgrounds to help us work toward solutions that embrace the whole of our shared communities.

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Partners

As an organization committed to collaboration and movement building, we are honored to partner with the following organizations doing important work for our environment and communities across the state of Michigan and beyond.

Engaging creative practice to build resilient social-ecological systems that support clean water, racial equity, and youth empowerment.

Board & Staff

Water.

Equity.

Youth.

Partners

Northern MI E3

Amplify Fellowship

We the People – MI

Crosshatch Center for Art & Ecology

Michigan League of Conservation Voters

FLOW

Groundwork Center for Resilient Communities

Earthwork Music

Oil & Water Don’t Mix

Earthwork Harvest Gathering

We the People of Detroit

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Engaging creative practice to build resilient social-ecological systems that support clean water, racial equity, and youth empowerment.

Board & Staff

Water.

Equity.

Youth.

Partners