A.J. Hudson AJ Hudson is an environmental organizer, climate activist, and community educator. As a current graduate student, he hopes to one day topple the barriers separating the vast resources of universities from the urgent needs of vulnerable communities. AJ spent five years teaching and eventually co-founded a public high school in one of the most disenfranchised, polluted, and over-policed neighborhoods in Brooklyn, NY before pivoting towards environmental work. He has led community workshops on climate justice with UPROSE, organized to pass New York’s CLCPA, and helped plan and execute the nation’s largest gathering for young people of color on climate change. View all posts Abigail Brandt Abigail Brandt is a West Coast native. She has produced and directed numerous arts and literary events, edited poetry journals, and served as a poetry event consultant. She co-founded and directed the Santa Barbara Poetry Festival, and for 10 years led the Carpinteria Poetry Workshop. Her poetry has won statewide contests in California and Oregon. Her poems have appeared in literary journals including Art/Life, Café Solo, Calyx, Spectrum, and Talus & Scree, and anthologies, including California’s Wild Edge and The Geography of Home: California’s Poetry of Place. She lives in Salem, Oregon with her husband Werner Brandt. View all posts Abigail Sykes Abigail Sykes is a Sweden-based, New Zealand-born journalist, translator and educator with a focus on the Transition to sustainable, just and regenerative societies. She is a co-founder of Omställningsbyrån (The Transition Bureau), a community of professionals working with stories and conversations about Transition. Key tools include Joanna Macy’s Work that Reconnects, permaculture, and the Art of Hosting.Abigail is also a co-founder of Starfish collective, a group of activists, educators and researchers dedicated to gender equity and climate and environmental justice, where she is particularly interested in decolonisation, ecofeminism and intersectional perspectives. Starfish is inspired by research by Associate Professor Martin Hultman and Dr Paul M. Pulé that addresses patriarchal structures and dominating masculinity norms as root causes of social and environmental exploitation, and sees care for Earth, others and self as central to the development of a truly sustainable and vibrant planet for all. View all posts adélàjà Simon Raised in Baltimore, adélàjà is a first generation U.S.born Yoruba, Arawak and Ayisyen descended being working to use this body and this life as a vessel to lift others up and explore the questions, “What do truly regenerative, place-based human cultures that are rooted in ancestral wisdom and aligned with the evolutionary impulse look like?” “How can we align our lives with manifesting these cultures?” adélàjà is currently studying with the Animas Valley Institute, working with Growing Together to plant fruiting trees in community spaces around Oakland and offering a practice at emergeazurescens. View all posts Adrián Villaseñor Adrián Villaseñor Galarza, PhD, is passionate about human transformation in service of the living Earth. Adrián is an integral ecopsychologist, international facilitator, contemplative teacher, author, and ritualist whose work weaves the psycho-spiritual study of the Earth-human relation, animist principles, and contemplative wisdom. He’s Core Faculty in the East West Psychology Department at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Adjunct Faculty at Naropa University, and founder of the Bioalchemy Institute and Work That Reconnects Latin America. Visit: living-flames.com for more information. View all posts Alessandra Bosco Alessandra Bosco, MA, is an independent research scholar, a narrative journalist, a photographer, a poet. At the intersection between social and ecological questions, art and spirituality, her work situates in the tradition of Renaissance intellectuals. She devoted the first decades of her path to social justice and the project of a social Europe within the European institutions in Brussels and Paris – whereupon she began traveling the world deepening alternative ways of living and knowing as well as dwelling in the forest and the country. Recently visiting UC Berkeley, her interests also include systems thinking, ecofeminism, ecopsychology and sacred activism. View all posts Alia Stewart-Silver Alia Stewart-Silver is a Co-Founder of SEEDS (School for Ecocentric Evolution & Design Strategies), a grassroots organization striving to help catalyze the emergent shift in consciousness toward a life-sustaining and life-enhancing world. Alia weaves together the diverse threads of her training background as a licensed therapist, restorative justice circle-keeper, permaculturalist, Vision Quest guide, energy healer, and cultural visionary. Alia applies this breadth of experience to offering sliding scale holistic counseling, facilitating group learning and justice spaces, guiding earth-based rites-of-passage ceremonies to support psycho-spiritual maturity, and collaboratively designing sustainable cultural and agricultural systems as innovative models for place-based regenesis. Connect @jointheseeds.com. View all posts Allie Picketts Allie Picketts (she/her) is a musician, writer, parent, editor, piano teacher, Work That Reconnects facilitator, and lover of nature. She was born and raised on the unceded lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), scəw̓aθən (Tsawwassen), and other Coast Salish Peoples, and is thankful to live within T’Sou-ke traditional territory on Vancouver Island, Canada. She can be found at www.alliepickettswrites.com View all posts Amelia Brady Amelia Brady is a poet and herbalist originally from the land bordering Lake Erie currently called Cleveland, Ohio, and now makes home in the Piedmont of North Carolina. They studied literature at American University and currently study plant medicine at the Blue Ridge School of Herbal Medicine. Amelia deeply loves the commonly misunderstood beings of the world, like insects, fungi, and coyotes. Their work can also be found in Mergoat Magazine. View all posts Amurri Lauren Amurri Lauren (she, her) is a passionate photographer known for capturing the beauty and emotion of everyday moments. With a keen eye for detail and a love for natural light, Amurri specializes in portrait and lifestyle photography. Her work is characterized by its authenticity and ability to tell stories through images. Amurri’s unique approach combines artistic vision with technical expertise, resulting in photos that are both visually stunning and emotionally resonant. Whether working with clients on personal projects or commercial shoots, she strives to create images that inspire and connect. Amurri’s dedication to her craft is evident in every shot she takes. View all posts
