US-Based 501(c)(3) · Founded 2005 · Forbes Nonprofit Council
A 21-Year Global Cultural Heritage Platform
Founded by Sattie Persaud, the World Heritage Cultural Center celebrates, preserves, and elevates cultural heritage through arts, food, storytelling, education, and global community engagement.
One Family. One Human Race. One World.
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Three Ways to Be Part of WHCC
Cultural Partner Network
Join the Global Village
Become part of WHCC's consent-based cultural partner network — where your culture is shared in your own words.
Apply to JoinWHCC D.A.R.E. Challenge
Take the D.A.R.E. Pledge
Stand for Diversity, All, Reachout, and Embrace. Add your voice to a growing global movement.
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Help Build WHCC's Future Home
Support Phase 1 of the WHCC Capital Campaign to build a permanent cultural campus where heritage, humanity, and the Earth are honored together.
Support the CampusWho We Are
World Heritage Cultural Center
The World Heritage Cultural Center (WHCC) is a cultural nonprofit dedicated to celebrating, preserving, and elevating the heritage of the world's communities through arts, food, storytelling, education, and human connection.
For 21 years, WHCC has created a stage rooted in humanity — where people can celebrate the cultures they carry with dignity. What began as a vision for Unity in Diversity has grown into a global platform connected to 850+ cultural groups, artists, elders, youth, families, institutions, and community partners.
WHCC believes culture is not decoration. It is memory, identity, belonging, resilience, and the living story of humanity.
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Each generation adds to the legacy of its ancestors. When people lose sight of their cultural roots, ancestry, and personal heritage, they lose sight of their true identity. I believe culture is the gateway into our humanity, as it emphasizes the unity in our diversity.
— Sattie Persaud, Founder, World Heritage Cultural Center
Our Story
Built Over 21 Years.
Ready for the Future.
WHCC began as a platform to celebrate cultural heritage and has grown into a global movement for preservation, education, sustainability, and human connection. As the world enters the age of AI, WHCC's work is expanding to help protect cultural knowledge, lived experience, consent, dignity, and human intelligence for future generations.
Sattie Persaud — Founder
World Heritage Cultural Center est. 2005
Human Intelligence Advisory Group est. 2026
Forbes Nonprofit Council — Thought Leader since 2023
Global Goodwill Ambassador (GGA) — since 2016
COP30 Speaker – Blue Zone | Belém, Brazil 2025
What We Do
Our Programs
Celebrating, preserving, and teaching world culture and heritage — through the arts as an agent of social change.
Performing Arts
Dance, Music & Theatre
Dance and musical participation inculcate culture not as a text or set of rules, but as a profound aesthetic orientation.
Visual Arts
Design & Creative Arts
Art is a form of communication; it allows people from different cultures and different times to communicate with each other via images, sounds, and stories.
Culinary Arts
Food as Cultural Heritage
Studying the culinary arts can help improve your life and the lives of the people you end up cooking for, as there is comfort in familiarity and joy in exploring unfamiliar palates.
Fashion
Tradition in Every Thread
The clothes we wear tell stories of our culture and heritage — things that can't easily be shrugged on and taken off at will. Tradition is passed down in the creation of our clothes.
Social Justice
Equity & Human Dignity
At WHCC, we believe social justice refers to the process of ensuring that individuals fulfill their societal roles and receive what is their due from society.
Environmental Stewardship
Culture & the Earth
Environmental stewardship refers to responsible use and protection of the natural environment through conservation and sustainable practices.
WHCC has built a common ground that allows people to embrace diversity through creativity and charity, bringing forth the realization that we are
One Family, One Human Race, One World.
Voices of Support
"In our modern world, social constructs can feel limiting. The World Heritage Cultural Center makes it possible to spread diversity and culture through music, dance and much more. Together we can build a better future."
— Alyssa Raghu
Singer. Actor. 2019 Top 8 American Idol Contestant.
Capital Campaign
Help WHCC Build a Global Stage for 850+ Cultures
A Permanent Home for the World's Cultures
We are raising funds to secure a permanent 90,000 sq ft home in the Northeast USA — a dedicated space where cultures from all 217 countries and territories we serve can gather, perform, learn, and celebrate together.
Every contribution, large or small, brings us one step closer. Your gift is tax-deductible and makes a lasting difference.
Cultural Heritage in the Age of AI
WHCC's 21-Year Foundation Now Powers HumanLayers.ai
WHCC's 21-year foundation now powers the work of the Human Intelligence Advisory Group and HumanLayers.ai, helping leaders and institutions understand why culture, context, dignity, and human intelligence must remain central as AI becomes part of daily life.
Explore HumanLayers.aiHuman Intelligence Advisory Group
Advising leaders and institutions on keeping human dignity, culture, and context at the center of AI development.
Cultural Knowledge Preservation
Protecting lived experience, sacred knowledge, and cultural heritage from being lost or misrepresented in AI systems.
Consent & Dignity in the AI Age
Ensuring that cultural communities retain ownership, consent, and dignity as their knowledge enters the digital world.
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Join Our Mission
Volunteer, partner, or donate to help us celebrate and preserve the world's cultural heritage for future generations.
Volunteer
Give your time and talents to help bring cultures together at our events and programs.
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Join our global network of 850+ cultural organizations and amplify your community's voice.
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Your contribution funds cultural programs, scholarships, and our global campus campaign.
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