STARHAWK
Starhawk is a permaculture designer, teacher, and founder of Earth Activist Training, which teaches regenerative design with a grounding in spirit and a focus on organizing and activism. She is the author of thirteen books on earth based spirituality and activism, including The Spiral Dance, The Earth Path, and The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups, on group dynamics and social permaculture, and her permaculture novels, The Fifth Sacred Thing and City of Refuge. Together with director Donna Read Cooper, she has worked on five major documentaries, including the Goddess Trilogy for the National Film Board of Canada and Permaculture: The Growing Edge. Starhawk holds a double diploma in design and teaching from the Permaculture Institute of North America. She presently directs Earth Activist Training, teaches internationally, and is a voice for incorporating Social Permaculture into our movement and training. |
AARON JOHNSON
Aaron Johnson (he/him) is an earth builder, teacher of closeness, and activist. He graduated from the California Institute of the Arts in 2007 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. He has made a lifelong commitment to use the skills he possesses to end racism. In addition to using intimacy and closeness to blackness as a primary means to that end, the tools he frequently uses are speaking, teaching, singing, photography, filmmaking, and minimalism. Aaron leads a mentoring program called Turn It Up Now that focuses on elevating the power, talent, love, and work ethic of youth. He believes that deep connection is one of the most powerful tools one can use in dismantling racism. |
HAZEL WARD Hazel is a long time resident of the Southern Oregon/Mount Shasta bioregion first settling here in the early 70’s, and has been advising farms, stewarding forests, and teaching Environmental Sciences for more than fifty years. Their focus for this 21st century has been Social Forestry, restoring Oak/Pine Savannah in Little Wolf Gulch near Ruch, OR, demonstrating natural building, fuel hazard materials utilization, multiple products woods-crafting, wildlife support and desert forest water management. |
Lydia is an Iranian-Armenian-American folk multi-instrumentalist, revolution-bringer, culture-tender, grief-worker, and mischief-maker. In her performances, she weaves together her songwriting, folk standards, Iranian ballads, love of harmonies, fiddle, banjo, and collective singing into an altar of music to lay at our feet. She is the creator behind Singing the Bones, a course with Leah Song of Rising Appalachia, and a music project that brings American artists together to explore and share folk music from their ancestries, encouraging cultural revitalization and diasporic healing. She has engaged in vibrant collaborations with world-renowned artists Climbing PoeTree, Rising Appalachia, MaMuse, and Lyla June. Lydia has also studied dedicatedly with deep ecology elder and Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy for the past 15 years, learning how we can metabolize planetary despair, anxiety, and community traumas into energy for resilience, action, and community healing. She founded and runs The School for The Great Turning, which creates access to an education that will empower humanity's life-sustaining legacy. www.schoolforthegreatturning.com |
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SARA TONE
WEAVING A SONIC TAPESTRY: IT TAKES A VILLAGE Sara Tone, based in Portland, is a musician, educator, and activist. She expresses her deep connection with nature through a variety of instruments, crafting soulful melodies that blend world folk with a hip-hop twist. Beyond songs, her music carries a collective intention, echoing environmental advocacy. Sara's performances have supported causes like intact forests, clean water, and indigenous rights. As an educator, she teaches percussion and voice, notably at the NW Singer Songwriter Soireé Retreat |
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ALIKO WESTE
Born and raised in Seattle Washington to a French ashkenazi and Sephardic Jewish mother and Caribbean father, Aliko is a first generation, trans, Blaxk presenting, bilingual Jewish entrepreneur and producer. Aliko is the Founder and director of several companies, is also a coach, event producer, designer, speaker, and an anti-capitalist somatic historian. Through all of his businesses, events, expertise and hobbies, medicine work, and identities, he is able to live out his dedication to carving out spaces for humanity through his life. |
Hayley Shannon (she/her) is a somatic healing arts practitioner, grief tender and embodiment artist with Celtic roots. She is passionate about co-creating spaces for people to re-member their innate body wisdom and intuitive creativity as a healing balm for themselves and others. Hayley’s in-depth training in dance/movement therapy, somatic expressive arts therapy, breathwork, meditation and contemporary dance inspires her unique offerings that began as Dance Healing in 2016. She values collaborating with artists and change-makers, and prioritizes living close to the Earth with her beloved community on a remote island in the Salish Sea. Find out more about how to participate in her offerings: www.embodysoul.love
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Reishi Strauss is an herbalist, mycologist, and medicine maker born and raised in the Appalachian Mountains of southwestern Virginia. She is currently enrolled in Columbine’s School of Botanical Studies in Eugene, OR, where she is studying clinical herbalism, botany, and wildcrafting stewardship. Reishi also owns and operates Earth & Spirit Botanicals – a business designed to heal the planet and people with sustainably wildcrafted and regeneratively cultivated herbal and fungal medicines. |
RYAN CRISTBorn and raised on a farm in the topsoil rich state of Minnesota, Ryan "Yeti" Crist's fascination with soil and plant life began before he could walk. While finishing his B.S. in Chemistry his interests turned toward soil science, hydroponics and aquaponics in a search for farming methods that were sustainable, resilient, and provided accelerated growth. For five years he designed, consulted for, and constructed several aquaponic and organic farms and gardens in the greater Portland area. Driven by his love of advanced farming methods and creative automated systems, Ryan returned to school for a degree in mechanical engineering in which he had opportunities to apply much of this education in agricultural settings and stumbled upon a project to automate a "small" wood gasification system for heat, electricity and liquid fuels derived from the wood gas. Wood-gasification is a closed loop form of pyrolysis, allowing all products to potentially be used. One significant byproduct from this process is Biochar, the great carbon key to our top soils. Ryan now works with Gorge Greens and Wind River Circular Systems developing a 5 megawatt gasification system coupled with vegetable producing greenhouses. The system will produce power for Skamania county in Washington state utilizing the local waste woody biomass and gives value to better forest management, provides heat, electricity and CO2 to the greenhouses, while producing 4000 tons of biochar annually.
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Dr. Josh Fattal is the Executive Director of the Center for Rural Livelihoods in rural Lane County. He holds a Ph.d. in history from New York University and completed the dissertation The World Turned Downside Up: the crisis of Marxism, humanism, and the libertarian left, 1937-1956. He is also the co-author of the memoir A Sliver of Light: Three Americans Detained in Iran about his harrowing twenty-six months of wrongfully detention. Dr. Fattal’s writing on a range of topics have appeared in public forums including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Seattle Times. Under Dr. Fattal’s leadership, the Center for Rural Livelihoods has revitalized the organization’s land base, its community partnerships, and it's residential program with an eye towards supporting liberatory, local social movements.
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Deep dive into NW Permacultute Ethos: exploring how to embody feedback, healthy succession and regenerative organizational practices by design. This session is led by the NWPCC Board of Directors - Shealee Evan's, Julie Wolf and David Ahlgen as a place to share about our work as a team to help this organization strengthen community connections that reinforce the application of permaculture principles. Learn about what we do, why we do it, our current project scope, and how to engage as a board member or community ally.
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Equity Abundance Funder | $300 |
General Admission | $200 |
Early Bird Ticket | $175 * |
Two Day (Saturday & Sunday) | $160 |
BIPOC & Low Income | $125 |
Single Day Ticket | $80 |
Kid's Ticket (Ages 5 -15) | $50 |
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JULIE WOLFJulie Wolf was a board ally for years from 2018-2022, joining the board in 2022 as an active connector and community builder. She will continue in service on the Board, sending Newsletters, holding monthly community meetings, hosting monthly speakers, responding to community needs and inviting more participation. Julie is committed to empowering the community to lead the next phase of how NW Permaculture Community can best be served by this organization with more People Care/Fairshare from its ancient origins of all our Relations.
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DAVID AHLGRENDavid Ahlgren has been on the board since 2018. He advocates for keeping things simple as a Northwest Permaculture organization and for non-violent communication and invites feedback always and often. David purposes to listen to land as he works around the world in different ecosystems as a restoration ecologist, water flow designer and permaculture educator.
To promote this organization's succession, David will be stepping down and continue as a Board advisor and ally as needed in the years to come as he steps into the next chapter in his life work and doctorate studies. He hopes to return to pass on his trade blanket ceremony and to share his life work as needed in this community. |
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