I support SFUSD to cultivate our environmental literacy in the pursuit of climate justice through solutionary-based education, professional learning, community engagement, and climate action.

Facilitating school district and community strategic planning processes to support cross-sectoral collaboration for triple bottom line health and wellness: residents, ecosystems & the local economy. Sample client: Calaveras Unified School District. See CalFresh Town Hall Webinar for Collective Impact presentation below.Leading accredited professional development & conference workshops for K-12 teachers in interdisciplinary, permaculture-inspired ecoliteracy curriculum that offers content & pedagogy inspiration supporting students find their voices to become empowered agents of change with sustainable solutions. Sample clients: Environmental Charter Schools, Green Ambassadors http://greenambassadors.org/Supporting environmental justice media producers to design curriculum that allows teachers to weave digital tools into their classes. The digital springboard connected to standards allows schools to bridge the classroom with the living learnscape and empower their students into community organizing activists. Highlighted projects: Food Fight, This Organic Life & the Lexicon of Sustainability.http://sosjuice.com/foodfight/ Free curriculum available here.http://www.theorganiclifemovie.com Contact for curriculum.http://www.lexiconofsustainability.com Contact for curriculum.

Collaborating station-wide to produce timely white papers – independent media, immigration, climate change, food justice – as platforms for grant proposals with Sacramento’s NPR affiliate station, Capital Public Radio.

Providing facilitation strategies to Seed Savers engaged in community education towards seed sovereignty.

Supported resilient school communities to integrate campus, curriculum and community through sustainable facilities design, ecoliteracy curricula and community organizing through facilitated support, residential training and online toolkits. Co-authored "The Resilient Schools Design & Facilitation Guide." www.oaec.orgFacilitated residential retreats and on-going support for K-12 school districts developing their ecoliteracy curriculum via the living learnscape.Engaged a nationwide network of ecological literacy program providers to support best practices and policy change.

The Institute is dedicated to supporting local living economies through ecologically just policy and leadership.

Training youth to be solutionaries in their communities through interdisciplinary & hands-on environmental service learning; fundraising & grantwriting to support programming.

Developed integrated, empowering curriculum that re-indigenized the sustainability movement for youth of color in urban public schools.

Taught sociolinguistics & literature through popular education social justice paradigm integrating relevant curriculum.