Dates: October 23, 2019 to October 25, 2019 (DATE CHANGE*)
Location(s): Main CONFERENCE MEETING SPACE HERITAGE HOTEL AND
CONFERENCE CENTER (Confirmed*) 522 HERITAGE ROAD Southbury, CT 06488
Breakout Rooms & Vendor SYMPOSIUM HERITAGE HOTEL AND CONFERENCE CENTER
(Confirmed*) 522 HERITAGE ROAD Southbury, CT 0648 This CONFERENCE IS
ELIGIBLE FOR CES FROM CONNECTICUT CERTIFICATION BOARD AND NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS (NASW CT). Confimation of receipt will
be posted on the page in the coming months. Contracted Hotels:
HERITAGE HOTEL AND CONFERENCE CENTER (Confirmed*) 522 HERITAGE ROAD
Southbury, CT 06488 Invited Speakers: Reconfirmed for 2019 as of
10/25/2018 Jillian Hishaw (Confirmed*) Lise Metzger (Confirmed*) Dr.
Mike Rosmann (Confirmed*) Keisha Cameron (Confirmed*) Pending Speaker
Requests: Rowen White (Pending*) Amani Olugbala (Pending*) Nakia
Navarro (Pending*) Ahna Kruzic (Pending*) Ruby Olisemeka (Pending*)
Kristin Jordan (Pending*) Sara Wolcott (Pending*) Ramasubramanian
Balasubramanian Oruganti (Pending*) Dr. Marta Moreno Vega (Pending*)
Zen Honeycutt (Pending*) Onika Abraham (Pending*) Kara Brewer Boyd
(Pending*) Danielle Nierenberg (Pending*) CONFERENCE INFORMATION:
Working Theme: WOMEN, Intersectionality and Food Systems *This page
will be updated periodically as CONFERENCE AGENDA ITEMS ARE CONFIRMED*
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[https://goo.gl/forms/ja0pwo5hx5o0lXWF3] Day One, October 23, 2018
Sunrise yoga (TBD): 6:30 am to 7:15 am Introduction: TBD: 8:00 am to
8:15 am Welcome: Welcome to Southbury: 8:00 am to 8:15 am -TBD
Plenary Session: 8:45 am to 10:45 am TBD Break: 10:45 am to 11:15 am
Workshop Sessions: 11:15 am to 12:30 pm Session A: Breaking
Ground: How to Access NEGEF Awards & Sponsorships w/ Staff -TBD In
this workshop, background on the types of grants available through
the New England Grassroots Environment Fund as well as
trainiing/skill building resources to frontline organizers will be
discussed in detail. The Grassroots Fund is a pooled fund with over
20 years experience resourcing the frontline of the New England
environmental justice movement. When participants finish the workshop,
they will know: How to apply for funding via the Grassroots Fund three
grant programs as well as project ideas that fit the guidelines
How to participate in design of and attend RootSkills webinars and
in-person trainings How to apply for event sponsorships How to
participate in the Grassroots Fund community, including as a reader of
grant applications or as a presenter at a RootSkills training or
webinar Session B: Systems Change through Dtory Telling/Making w/ Anha
Kruzic WOMEN ARE SHAPING OUR FOOD SYSTEM FOR the better - we're
leading efforts to create a fair, healthy,and sustainable food system
from the ground up. But we're doing so despite significant
challenges. Despite the fact that WOMEN PARTICIPATE IN THE PRODUCTION
AND PROCESSING OF FOOD AT ROUGHLY EQUAL RATES TO MEN, most
undernourished people in the world are WOMEN AND GIRLS. The food
system overall is highly dependent on the labor and skills of WOMEN,
but this doesn’t necessarily translate to decision-making power.
Instead, our labor is unpaid or underpaid, significantly more-so for
WOMEN OF COLOR, and we are subjected to high rates of gender-based
discrimination, sexual harassment, and violence on the job. But we're
taking control of our food systems for the better by farming,
organizing, and advocating for systems that are better for farmers,
workers, their communities, and ultimately -- our planet. Since
WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP IS KEY TO THE transformation of our food system,
we must tell our stories, learn from one another's successes
and challenges, and grow our movement into the future. Join us for
this workshop as together, we explore the power of the exploration of
our histories and story-telling for food
and AGRICULTURE transformation. Session C: The Behavioral Health
of WOMEN AND MINORITIES INVOLVED IN AGRICULTURE W/ Michael R. Rosmann
Ph.D. WOMEN CURRENTLY ARE THE PRIMARY OPERATORS OF 17% of American
farms and secondary operators of another third of U.S. farms. Like
males, these WOMEN OPERATE large crop and livestock farms in the U.S.
as well as smaller andoften organic vegetable and animal production
farms. People of color and females are increasingly pursuing
livelihoods in AGRICULTURE IN AMERICA THESE days. Can female
American farmers improve the well-being of the two fifths of farmers
around the world who are WOMEN, mostly in third worldnations? This
presentation takes a look at the unique behavioralhealth problems
that accompany agricultural occupations, drawing especially on the
presenter's research and experiences as a licensed clinical
psychologist and farmer for 40 years and as a professor and writer
aboutoccupational and environmental health for two decades. There
are significantly higher incidences of anxiety, depression and
suicide among the agricultural population in comparison to the
nonagricultural U.S. population. Relationship problems such as
family conflict and abuse often are gender-related and are prime
indicators of stress within agriculturalfamilies, according to the
author's research. People who are cultural and racial minorities in
the U.S. frequentlyexperience special behavioral health adjustment
issues, such as difficulties with their status as migrant workers and
sometimes as undocumented immigrants, besides problems in daily living
such as access to healthcare, schools and lack of family and social
supports. Racial minorities wantingto farm sometimes face resistance
from the dominant culture in some locations around the U.S., although
progress is being made in some of the main agricultural areas, like
the West Coast. This presentation takes a look at the special
issues of WOMEN AND RACIAL MINORITIES IN AGRICULTURE ANDPROGRAMS THAT
ARE ALREADY ADDRESSING THESE CONCERNS, as well as further
recommended solutions to obstacles facing WOMEN IN GENERAL AND THOSE
OF COLOR in particular. Essentially, this presentation will describe
major behavioral healthstressors experienced by WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE
AND RECOMMEND WAYS WOMEN CAN MANAGE their behavioral health. Three
proposed objectives of thispresentation are the following: Attendees
will acquire knowledge about the unique behavioral health issues that
are linked to AGRICULTURE AND HOW THESE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH DIAGNOSES
COMPARE TO THOSE OF THE NONAGRICULTURAL POPULATION. Participants in
this presentation will learn about gender-linked behavioral health
issues of people engaged in AGRICULTURE THAT HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED AS
SPECIFIC TO WOMEN. The attendees will learn about recommended
solutions to the particular behavioral health problems experienced by
WOMEN AND MINORITIES IN AGRICULTURE. Lunch: 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm, On
your own! Workshop Sessions: 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm Session D:
Re-focusing the Image of WOMEN FARMERS, One Story at a Time w/
Lise Metzger Do you ever feel isolated or unseen as you work hard on
your farm? Have you ever thought no one cares about your intense
investment in what you do? Hearing the stories of other WOMEN CAN HELP
MAKE YOU FEEL CONNECTED TO OTHER PEOPLE, or to yourself or to
something you’d like in your own life. It can help you know that the
work you do matters, and that people are paying attention and care.
The Grounded WOMEN PROJECT
(http://groundedwomen.com/about-the-project/
[http://groundedwomen.com/about-the-project/]) tells the why and how
story of independent farmers: what led each woman to choose a life in
AGRICULTURE, for example, and what issues does she face as a woman?
Come GATHER TOGETHER TO HEAR THE CREATOR OF GROUNDED WOMEN TELL THE
STORIES OF WOMEN FARMERS AS WELL AS THE STORY BEHIND THE STORIES.
Leave with a knowing that one story at a time, one farm at a time,
WOMEN ARE CHANGING THE FACE OF AGRICULTURE. Session E: WOMEN IN
CANNABIS BY KRISTIN JORDAN TBD SESSION F: TBD Day Two, October 24,
2018 Sunrise yoga (TBD): 6:30 am to 7:15 am Introduction: 8:30 am to
9:00 am - WOMEN ON THE MOVE - Senator Heather Somers Plenary Session:
9:15 am to 10:45 am - Planting Sacred Seeds in a Modern World;
Restoring Indigenous Seed Sovereignty w/ Rowen White All across
Turtle Island (North America) we are seeing a great resurgence of
indigenous tribes building healthy and resilient food systems as a
cornerstone to cultural and ecological renewal programs, as well as a
means to reclaim indigenous economies and true economic and political
sovereignty. If a community is to be truly sovereign and free from
colonizing forces, they must be able to feed and nourish themselves
with culturally appropriate foods. Food and seed sovereignty is the
right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced
through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to
define their own food and AGRICULTURE SYSTEMS. Despite the scorched
earth tactics of countless colonial and imperial forces to try and
starve Native American communities into submission and cultural
amnesia, indigenous people and their seeds survived, and now a rich
array of community food and seed sovereignty projects are sprouting,
sowing seeds of hope in the hearts of many. Through her work with the
Indigenous Seed Keepers Network, Rowen is helping indigenous
communities cultivate culturally appropriate solutions to restoring
seed stewardship of traditional foods. Using this seed work as a
powerful means for reconciliation, she will share powerful and
inspiring stories of the rematriation of our traditional seeds back
into the reverent care of indigenous WOMEN. In the age of the
increasing industrialization of our food and the erosion of
biodiversity within cultural contexts, the Indigenous Seed Keeper
Network asks the question; Can we envision the Seed Commons, and
coordinate collaborative efforts to care and protect for our seeds
that is in right relationship to our indigenous cosmology? How can we
use the process of reclaiming our traditional seeds and food as a
powerful means of cultural restoration? Come learn about the beautiful
seed legacy of the indigenous people of this land, and see how you can
be a part of the reconciliation between yourself and the seeds of your
own ancestry, and revitalize this ancient web of relationships that
comes with being an indigenous Seed Keeper. Attendees will gain an
understanding of: The dynamic intersection and importance between
cultural restoration and the restoration of indigenous food and seed
systems. The importance of indigenous WOMEN TAKING A FIERCE AND LOVING
ROLE IN THE REMATRIATION OF OUR HERITAGE SEEDS BACK INTO OUR
COMMUNITIES FROM GOVERNMENT AND UNIVERSITY RESEARCH PROGRAMS AND FROM
THE COLLECTIONS OF MUSEUMS AND PUBLIC ACCESS SEED BANKS. A
heartfelt and deeply touching array of stories from indigenous
communities from North America who are cultivating new seed and food
culture as a means to heal historical trauma and reconnect to our
ancestral lands. Break: 10:45 am to 11:00 am Workshop
Sessions:. 11:15 am to 12:30 pm Session G: At the Root: An
Examination of White Sepremacy and Systemic Racism in US Food
Systems w/ Ahna Kruzic Though many movement participants presume
alternative AGRICULTURE MOVEMENT SPACES TO BE ECONOMICALLY, socially,
and environmentally just, narratives of whiteness and color-blind
racism permeate the movement’s collective discourse. I argue that a
critique of whiteness and white supremacy is necessary to build
sustainable food and AGRICULTURE MOVEMENTS THAT DISMANTLE INJUSTICE.
In this session, we will identify common manifestations of whiteness
in food and AGRICULTURE MOVEMENT SPACES, and learn tools to
help identify our own narratives of color-blind racism and whiteness
which reify white supremacy. This session is based on data analyzing
communications from researchers, farmers, advocates, activists, and
more across six communities in the United States. Session H:
Farming While Black by Amani Olubala Some of our most cherished
sustainable farming practices - from organic AGRICULTURE TO THE CSA -
have roots in African wisdom. Yet, discrimination and violence have
deprived the Black community of farmland, capital, and healthy food
access. Soul Fire Farm is part of a national network working toward
food sovereignty and land justice. Learn how we can build upon
Afro-Indigenous wisdom in reshaping the food system to be based on
equity and abundance rather than exploitation and deprivation. Session
I: Enabling Caring Ecosystems w/ Ramasubramanian Balasubramanian
Oruganti and Sara Jolena Wolcott What does it mean to be part of the
whole – especially when the system as a whole seems set on ignoring
or even harming your efforts? This workshop focuses on the role of
remembering history in ways that empower us, engaging with our
spiritualities, and telling the right story at the right time to
effect needed change. It is a participatory workshop that will
include storytelling, mapping your existing ecosystem (human and
non-human) and considering WHERE ARE THE PLACES FOR MANAGEABLE,
collective engagement that can enable greater rest, wealth, and health
for all. Lunch: 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm, On your own! Workshop
Sessions: 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm Session J: TBD Session K: Feminism Is
Not Enough! Reviving the Yoni Culture - A CELEBRATION OF THE FEMININE,
An Awakening of the Goddess Within w/ Ruby Olisemeka The feminist
movement, mid 1800's onwards, has made significant ideological changes
and tangible strides in the struggle for equality between men and
WOMEN. However the movement has centered historically around
empowering, white WOMEN, and appears to seek assimilation into a
fundamentally flawed societal model, rather than dismantling that
model and all the oppressive systems that are woven within it. The
feminist movement also appears to not acknowledge the suppressed
history off the ancient feminine goddess cultures and reviving them as
a critical part of WOMENS LIBERATION. In this interactive workshop we
will critically analyze the concept of femininity, look at some
feminine archetypes, and the cultures that created and celebrated
them. We will discuss the ways we can work to awaken this culture,
first within ourselves. We will practice some rituals and methods
(herbal medicine making, land practices, mantras) to strengthen and
express the divine feminine within. Session L: TBD Day Three,
October 25, 2018 Sunrise yoga (TBD): 7:15 am to 8:00 am Community
Volunteering Opportunity:. Habitat for Humanity WOMENBUILD, 9:00 am to
3:00 pm (*****By registration only. Volunteers MUST COMMIT TO THE
WHOLE DAY! Please check for more details on this opportunity by
September 2018*****.). OR Community Farm Tour # 1: Common Ground High
School, TBD Community Farm Tour # 2:. TBD Community Farm Tour # 3:
Slate School, TBD Community Farm Tour # 4: TBD Our Valued Supporters
and Sponsors: 2018 New England Grassroots Environmental Fund
CONNECTICUT Suicide Advisory Board Cabot Cheese of Vermont Food First
Moutain Rose Herbs Food Tank Food Solutions New England Natural Nutmeg
Magazine The Edible Schoolyard Project 2019 TBD Speaker Biographies:
Jillian Hishaw, Esq, L.L.M./Attorney Jillian Hishaw, author of "Don't
Bet the Farm on Medicaid" and Founder and CEO of Hishaw Law, LL.C in
Cheyenne, Wyoming and Family AGRICULTURE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SERVICES
(F.A.R.M.S.) a national nonprofit that provides legal and technical
services to small farmers of color will discuss her experience working
in AGRICULTURE AS A WOMAN OF COLOR IN VARIOUS CAPACITIES PRIOR TO
ESTABLISHING HER OWN BUSINESSES OUT OF NECESSITY. Hishaw has
previously worked for the Assistant Secretary Office of Civil Rights,
US Department of AGRICULTURE IN WASHINGTON DC AND ON
THE Pigford (Black American farmer discrimination class
action) and Keepseagle (Native American farmer discrimination class
action) claims settlement process prior to establishing F.A.R.M.S.
Since F.A.R.M.S. inception, over 220,000 lbs. of produce have been
donated in high poverty rural communities of color and Black farms
have been saved from foreclosure. As a philanthropist, Hishaw has
raised thousands of dollars for charitable food programs and published
several law review and American Bar Association articles on
agricultural and environmental topics i.e. the Drake Journal of
Agricultural Law, the Journal of Food Law & Policy and more! Hishaw
holds a Bachelors of Science in Biology from Tuskegee University,
Juris Doctorate and Legal Masters (LL.M) in Agricultural law from the
University of Arkansas-Fayetteville law school. For more information
about F.A.R.M.S. please
visit www.30000acres.org or www.jillianhishaw.com Dr. Mike R.
Rosmann/Farmer, Psycologist Michael R. Rosmann is a psychologist and
farmer whose life's work involves improving the behavioral healthcare
of the agricultural population. He seeks to advance regional and
global food production policy which enhances the behavioral and
economic welfare of food producers, maintains stewardship of the land
and other resources used in food production and protects the safety of
food for consumers. In an era of increasing tension due to
bioterrorist threats and shifts in the agribusiness climate, he is a
voice for the agricultural population. The New York Times said this
about him: a fourth generation farmer as well as a clinical
psychologist, he speaks the language of men and WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF
LOSING THEIR PLACE ON THE LAND. Michael R. Rosmann received a
bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Colorado and a
Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Utah. Following a
five year stint as a faculty member in the psychology department of
the University of Virginia, Rosmann and his family moved to their farm
in rural western Iowa WHERE HE DEVELOPED AN ORGANIC CROP AND PUREBRED
LIVESTOCK OPERATION. He also provided mental health services to the
farm population, first in private practice and then in community
mental health centers. He developed the first mental health response
in Iowa to the farm crisis of the 1980's. He initiated Prairie Rose
Mental Health Center in Harlan, Iowa and was its director for eight
years. Lise Metzger/Photographer Lise Metzger writes and photographs
the project Grounded WOMEN: Stories of WOMEN WHO FARM. She is an
award-winning photographer who for the past 30 years has shot for
advertising agencies, magazines and corporations, as well as creating
branding imagery for individual clients. She has taught both digital
and film photography at universities, high schools and in a men’s
prison. What started many years ago as severe stomach pains led to a
deep dive to understand the connection between food and health, which
led to a broader investigation of our food system as a whole and the
social, political, economic, environmental, and health issues that
result. She launched Grounded WOMEN AS A WAY TO SHARE THE AUTHENTIC
AND INSPIRING STORIES OF WOMEN WHO CHOOSE A LIFE IN AGRICULTURE, and
to contribute to changing the narrative around food and the WOMEN WHO
GROW IT. You can see her work
at lisemetzger.com andgroundedwomen.com. Ahna Kruzic/Former Director
of Publications and Communications, Food First Ahna Kruzic is a
community organizer turned activist-researcher from rural Iowa. Ahna
has worked as researcher, community organizer, coalition-builder, and
more. As Director of Publications and Communications at Food First,
otherwise known as the Institute for Food and Development Policy, Ahna
coordinates and contributes to communications, analysis, and
research-for-action which seeks to dismantle exploitative racism,
capitalism, and oppression in the food system. Nakia Navarro/Former
Program Director, New England Grassroots Environment Fund Nakia
Navarro hails from Hilton Head Island, South Carolina and currently
resides in Boston, Massachusetts with her two children, Kayla and
Mateo. Her nonprofit experience spans well over fifteen years and
includes organizing roles within food rescuing, disaster response, as
well as college access and success for low resourced students. In
addition to working as a Program Director at the Grassroots Fund,
Nakia wrote and teaches an environmental justice curriculum at area
Boston, MA high schools and serves on the board of the Dorchester Food
COOP. In addition, she is the author of The Messiness of Life, an
Anthology and the Everdeen Series. Nakia received her Bachelor’s
degree in Public Administration with a minor in Spanish from Winthrop
University, a Certificate in Global Communications from the
University of Salamanca, and she is currently pursuing her Master of
Arts in Urban and Environmental Public Policy and Planning at Tufts
University Rowen White/Director, Sierra Seeds Rowen White is a Seed
Keeper from the Mohawk community of Akwesasne and a passionate
activist for seed sovereignty. She is the director and founder of the
Sierra Seeds, an innovative organic seed stewardship organization
focusing on local seed and education, based in Nevada City CA. She
teaches creative seed stewardship immersions around the country within
tribal and small farming communities . She is the current Project
Coordinator and advisor for the Indigenous Seed Keeper Network, which
is a part of the Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance. Her Seed
Seva Educational program is a wholistic, indigenous permaculture based
approach to seed stewardship which honors the many layers of seed
culture , from practical hands on skills, cultural context and memory
with guiding principles that are rooted in an indigenous ecology of
interconnected relations. She weaves stories of seeds, food, culture
and sacred Earth stewardship on her blog, Seed Songs. Follow her seed
journeys at www.sierraseeds.org. Ruby Olisemaka/Farmer, Food Justice
Advicate Ruby Olisemeka is an independent educator/consultant focusing
on socially transformative education; food justice and incorporating
African and indigenous practices into farming and food & farming
education. She began her farming career as an apprentice at Stone
Barns (2011) and has since built numerous school and urban gardens in
lower Westchester and Harlem. Ruby has over 10 years’ experience
educating children and young adults, she has worked as an educator at
Edible Schoolyard NYC, Harlem Grown and various public and private
schools and institutions. "We who do this liberation work want to
bring about a revolution in our lifetime; we have deemed, with
sadness, the current national and international power structure not
fit to ensure and promote the full expression of life. I am part of
a collective, a movement of people wanting to bring about a more just
world. I am a farmer and teacher, a spiritualist and budding
herbalist, an afro centrist and naturalist. My path as a farmer began
with an apprenticeship at Stone Barns Center for Food and AGRICULTURE
IN 2011.I've kept my hands in the soil ever since, building urban,
suburban and periurban gardens in lower Westchester and Harlem. I
teach (in classrooms, gardens, spaces WHERE PEOPLE CAN GATHER)
children and adults how to do the work I do on land. A farmer can
rarely escape the intersections of poverty, politics, food access or
justice when farming sustainably. I am an activist working to
dismantle the food and health related injustices Africans and people
of African descent endure."- RO Amani Olugbala Amani Olugbala is the
farm and food justice educator at Soul Fire Farm, Grafton NY,
dedicated to ending racism and injustice in the food system. Amani's
is a gifttoryteller who weaves music, film, speech and poem into art
that highlights social injustice, honors the ancestors and demands for
change. This, in an effort to uplift the spirits of the marginalized
and promote love and service as necessary acts of rebellion against
isolation and disconnection. An artist, farmer, educator and community
organizer Amani uses artistic expression, urban AGRICULTURE AND
SOCIAL AWARENESS TO IMPACT CHANGE AND FOSTER A SENSE OF EMPATHY AND
INTER-being in urban-rural communities. Sara Jolens Wolcott, M.Div.
Sara Jolena Sequoia Wolcott, M.Div, is the Founding Director of
Sequoia Samanvaya, LLC, an eco-theology education and consulting
company connecting the disconnected.
(www.sequoiasamanvaya.com). Sequoia Samanvaya LLC specializes in
spiritually designed, community-building online courses that connect
colonization and health/ecological crises such as climate change and
sugar. She is a minister, healer, writer/artist and
entrepreneur. Sequoia Samanvaya LLC arose from over a decade of
Wolcott's search for the root causes of systemic injustices such as
climate change. Her quest has led her to such varied experiences as
co-leading international programs at the Institute of Development
Studies at the University of Sussex in England; working on an organic
farm; living as a singer/musician in India, and studying eco-theology
at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York at Columbia
University. For over 17 years, she has practiced 1-1 healing work in
what she currently calls Sacred Bodywork. A valued international
speaker, she has spoken in over 7 countries and 9 U.S. states. She
regularly returns to her northern Californian birthplace on Ohlone
territories. She currently lives in the Bronx, NY, in the historical
homeland of the Lenape/Siwanoy peoples. When not running a
start-up, hosting dinners for her community or working on her book,
she enjoys painting, horseback riding, and cloud watching.
Ramasubramanian Balasubramanian Oruganti/Director, Sustainable
Livelihood Institute Ramasubramanian Balasubramanian Oruganti has
been involved with the creation of networks of consumers, activists,
farmers and enthusiasts around Sustainable Farming and Local
Economy since 1998. In South India, it is estimated that 60-70
percent of the farmers are WOMEN. Has trained rural marginalized
community leaders to mobilize themselves, adopt sustainable
AGRICULTURE PRACTICES AND BECOME A MARKET FORCE SINCE 2005. As
consultant for the Government’s WOMEN IN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
PROGRAM, he has designed, through participatory processes, district
level sustainable AGRICULTURE PROJECTS WITH WOMEN FARMERS FOR 6
DISTRICTS IN THE SOUTH INDIAN STATE OF TAMILNADU WHICH HAS IMPACTED
OVER 5000 FARMING FAMILIES. Has designed the system for managing the
various components of the eco- system for the implementation of these
programmes as well. Since launching of the Sustainable Livelihood
Institute, he has designed and coordinated the training of over 2000
rural WOMEN LEADERS IN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE PRACTICES. He is
currently working with initiatives in 3 states of India on
implementing sustainable AGRICULTURE PRACTICES, including with Dalit
WOMEN LEADERS AND INDIGENOUS (tribal/Adivasi) communities. His
visit with the eco-theology company, Sequoia Samanvaya LLC, is his
first entry into the United States. He hopes that what he has learned
from these marginalized, collective communities in India may be of
benefit to farmers and others in the USA. He considers himself
first and foremost a storyteller and a student of village communities
in India. Performance Artist & Healers Biographies: Kelvin Young
Kelvin Young is the Director of Toivo by Advocacy Unlimited, Holistic
Stress Management Instructor, and Sound Alchemist. As a recognized
leader in the addiction recovery movement and throughout the holistic
healing community, Kelvin’s powerful healing journey began while he
was in prison, WHERE HE FOUND inner peace, self-realization, and love
through meditation, yoga, and the expressive arts. Bringing his
story of personal transformation into the community, Kelvin has shared
his story with thousands of individuals in or seeking recovery. In
2014 Kelvin became the Director of Toivo by Advocacy Unlimited - a
center for holistic healing and stress management in Hartford,
CONNECTICUT. Kelvin continues to share his story of healing from
within as a passionate public speaker, and he is known for his warm,
loving, and down-to-earth way of connecting with people. Ed Cleveland
Ed Cleveland is a Reiki and Sound Teacher, Neuroacoustical
Practitioner combining indigenous sound instruments. Combining with
Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuromusicology, and Psychophysiology.
Acoustic Designer of Soundscapes using the high, low, ascending,
descending pitch, intervals, and inversion, thick, and thin in harmony
with crescendo, or diminuendo’s to open the imagination and
intellect. Questions? Please feel free to contact Michelle L.
Bicking at ourhiddenacresfarm@gmail.com at any time.
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