Let's bring people together for change! In our increasingly digital
world, there's nothing like live events to inspire participants toward
​life- and world-changing action.
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Working with groups of people to change the world in live settings builds relationships and makes impact. Environmental and sustainability knowledge and experience are more relevant now than ever, especially regarding our local sense-of-place and understanding of bioregions, watersheds and communities through presentations, facilitated activities and coursework.

I have presented unique material and delivered set curricula locally to internationally to a variety of groups in many settings:

• Indoor multimedia and outdoor experiential
• Youth and adult participants​
• Wide cultural diversity in nonprofit organizations and NGOs, social impact businesses, churches and educational insitutions

​Offerings

Are you building a business product line or nonprofit/NGO program with an aligned mission? My broad experience can be available to support the development of your work on project- and retainer-bases.
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I have worked with a variety of groups from educational institutions, for- and non-profit organizations with diverse participants in the USA, Asia, Africa and Latin America. 

​Program Leadership and Consulting
Services can support:

• Pre-existing presentations and workshops
• Custom-developed curriculum and programming to meet your constituents' needs

 ​Outcomes
Outcomes can include:

• increased knowledge and tangible, accessible steps (and next steps beyond) for connecting with our immediately surrounding local ecosystems, food systems and sustainable living approaches
• learning about how these more accessible steps are connected to similar phenomena, taking place internationally in areas of opportunity and need
• improved understanding not only of hands-on practices, but of framing ideas that can lead to higher program performance and systems understanding​

Participatory photography in action with refugee gardeners and farmers in multicultural City Heights, San Diego

​Clients, collaborations and contributions have included:
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Presentations and Workshops

• "Permaculture and Peace": San Diego City College: Peace Studies 
• California Native Plant Society, San Diego Chapter
• ​"Sustainable Tourism and Interpretation": San Diego State University: Hospitality and Tourism Management
• ​"Permaculture in the California Native Plant Garden": Tree of Life Nursery​
• "What Is Sustainability?": Center for Creative Leadership

• "​Intro to Permaculture": Wild Willow Farm and Education Center
• "​Agro Eco Tourism: Valuing Rural Lifeways" - ECHO Congreso Agricultura y Desarrollo Comunitario, Managua Nicaragua
• ​​San Diego Sustainable Living Institute​

Panel Facilitation

• Rotary International​: World Peace Conference - Sustainability Track (Ontario, California​, 2020)
  • ​​​The Rotary World Peace Conference gives Rotarians and non-Rotarians from all sectors of society an opportunity to come together, learn from experts, become inspired and leave with immediate action plans to implement within our communities. Ontario Convention Center - Ontario, California​, 2020
• Kumeyaay Foodways Panel with Slow Food URBAN San Diego (San Diego, California, 2018)
  • ​The fifth annual Good Food Community Faire, themed "Back To The Land", once again brought together San Diego-region people and organizations desiring a Good, Clean & Fair food system aligned with the values of Slow Food International. Emphasis focused on how regenerative agriculture can guide the restoration of our food system and environment, especially the traditional ecological knowledge of Indigenous peoples, foremost the region's Kumeyaay Nation . I served as panel coordinator and facilitator, including tribal community outreach for the event held at Balboa Park's Worldbeat Cultural Center.​