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Fundraiser to support Diversity Scholarships for Indigenous People and People of Color.

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EVENT DETAILS

  • April 24, 2022 – virtual
  • Hosted by Starhawk
  • Guest presenters: Pandora Thomas, Redbird Willie, Chanowk Yisrael, Bahar from Afghanistan
  • Includes Indigenous Land recognition, welcoming the elements, grounding, and a guided meditation 
  • Questions from community members welcome

DEAF & HARD OF HEARING STUDENTS

  • This event features American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation and closed captioning

HONORED PRESENTERS

PANDORA THOMAS

Pandora Thomas is the founder of the Black Permaculture Network, a network of Afro-Indigenous people who have come together through the practices of permaculture, agroecology, natural living and care for the Earth. 

Pandora founded and stewards EARTHseed Permaculture Center and Farm, the first Afro-Indigenous and all Black-owned retreat and education center in Sonoma County, California, located on the ancestral lands of the Coast Miwok and Southern Pomo Peoples. Established in March 2021, EARTHseed farm is a 14-acre solar-powered farm and orchard built on the legacy of earth wisdom traditions of people of African descent. 

Among Pandora’s many achievements, she is a partner and designer at the Urban Permaculture Institute. As a teacher and writer, Pandora has authored multiple curricula and publications, including a children’s book, and manual for teaching green building to youth, entitled “Shades of Green.” 

 Pandora is a guest teacher with Earth Activist Training, specializing in social permaculure.

WATCH: “A Vision of Sankofa,” TEDx Denver. Teaching youth of color to reconnect with the Earth. 

Awards and Recognition

  • Senior Climate Innovation Fellow at the Movement Strategy Center
  • Fellowships at Columbia University’s Center for Human Rights, Green For All, the Bronx Zoo, and Applied Research Center
  • Featured in the films, “The Future of Energy” and “Inhabit”
  • Speaker, TEDx San Francisco and TEDx Denver

REDBIRD WILLIE

Redbird Willie (Pomo, Wailaki, Wintu) is a Native ecologist with deep expertise in teaching Indigenous Ways of Knowing, fire ecology, permaculture, and ancestral skills to people of all ages. He is a land steward for the Cultural Conservancy at Heron Shadow, which is a center for learning, connection to the land, growing Indigenous foods, and nourishing Indigenous and intercultural relations.

Redbird is an artist who creates through basket weaving, regalia making, drawing, painting, sculpture, and graphic design. He is the illustrator of a recently published children’s book, Adventures of Two Coast Miwok Children.

As a guest teacher with Earth Activist Training, Redbird specializes in Indigenous land stewardship through fire ecology. 

LISTEN“Rekindling Native California Ecologies,” the Native Seed Pod podcast. 


CHANOWK YISRAEL

Chanowk Yisrael is the founder of the Yisrael Family Urban Farm. Born and raised in Sacramento, California –  labeled a “food desert “by the United States Department of Agriculture, and supporting parents who were both cancer survivors, Chanowk vowed to break the cycle of poor eating habits that plagued his family by putting healthy food on the family table. During the great recession of 2008, Chanowk decided that the best way to do this was to start growing his own food.

In 2011, Chanowk left his career as a structural engineer for seeds and soil, and together with his wife Judith started their farm. Today, the Yisrael Family Urban Farm is using urban agriculture to engage, employ, and empower their community by offering educational farm tours, local plant sales, farm stands, healthy cooking classse, and youth programs that teach people the valuable arts of cultivating the soil, the self, and service to the community.

READ“Changing the ‘Hood For Good,” published by the Berkeley Food Institute.

Awards and Recognition

  • Named one of California’s Emerging Food Systems Changemakers
  • Farmer’s Guild Advocate of the Year
  • Environmentalist of the Year
  • Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability Award

BAHAR 

Please donate to support Earth Activist Training’s Emergency Campaign for Afghan Relief

Your donations to this campaign will help provide flights, food, shelter, medical care, and clothing to help two Afghan families resettle into a new life. Tashakor, thank you so much. A contribution of any amount is appreciated. 

Bahar* is an Afghan permaculture teacher and human rights activist. For more than 10 years, her community has been planting trees and nurturing permaculture gardens in efforts to heal lands ravaged by years of war. Bahar and her community are teachers and peace activists, committed to nonviolence. 

Earth Activist Training’s emergency campaign for Afghan relief is supporting this community.  Some of our friends have made it across borders, while others are still trapped in Afghanistan. 

Bahar will speak to you about her dream for a new life: “We hope to live with people who have love and friendship with Mother Earth. Where the earth is restored, no water is wasted, many different kinds of trees are cultivated, and birds live and sing songs at dawn. This is my dream.” 

* Name changed to protect identity


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Order of speakers in presentation: Bahar, Pandora Thomas, Redbird Willie, Chanowk Yisrael.


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