About Us

THE MOVEMENT

ORGANIZATIONAL VISION

Shared Purpose for the Ecological Restoration Movement

To collectively restore the health of ecosystems as quickly as possible by combining ancestral wisdom with modern ecology and climate science, using Indigenous values to retell the story of our relationships in ways that promote social justice, food security, and human health as a reflection of the health of the ecosystems of which we are a part

ORGANIZATIONAL VISION

Mitigate the extinction event and restore human and ecological health by

Restoring resilient native forest ecosystems

and

Spreading food forestry and syntropic agroforestry practices

MISSION

To promote ecological restoration by empowering individuals and communities to:

Reforest wildlands
Create food forests
Cultivate syntropic farms and gardens

GOALS

MISSION

RESEARCH

Collect wisdom and knowledge

EDUCATE

Package and share wisdom and knowledge

PRACTICE

Empower communities to put wisdom and knowledge into practice

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Our Team

Jessica Alvarez-Parfrey, (she/they), California

With a background in community organizing, nonprofit fundraising, and environmental activism (formerly with Greenpeace USA), Jessica Alvarez Parfrey finds joy in seeking transformative opportunities for radical collaboration and community co-creation. Having worked on food, housing, community health and wellness, and other issues; Jess is a life-long learner of all things that would allow us to reimagine our relationship to Earth and to one another. Jess is a nepantlera, mother, creative, caretaker of 44 acres of land, and a JEDI consultant working in service to the project of collective liberation. She received her B.A. in Environmental Studies from the University of California at Santa Barbara , and is driven to nurture opportunities for joy, healing, community-based strategy, and design informed by decolonized practice and methodologies.

Kalindi Stowell

Kalindi grew up and currently resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico as a multifaceted artist. Her passions for visual art, writing, music, film, food, psychology, mycology, phycology, ecology, biology, the microcosm, and macrocosm have created a polymathic life journey. Exploring intersecting interests between art and science built a collection of skills and knowledge ideal for weaving threads of the natural world, technology, and media into vessels for education. She is dedicated to supporting a future where we can mutually thrive with the Earth through knowledge, healing, forgiveness, and greater responsibility.

Yasin Muhammad, Songwriter and Musician from Chicago, Il.

Currently based in Brooklyn, NY. An Artist working in film production, screenwriting, and comedy. Experience in copywriting and event planning.

Kim Ryan

Kim has spent much of her youth exploring the Mississippi River bluffs of southern Minnesota. Her work has consisted of many various forms of producing, planning, organizing, and putting pieces together. Motherhood led her to a realization of the true lack of sustainability of modern American city-dwelling, and to spend the past few years studying Earth-building and practicing resource management through off-grid living. She is grateful to have found in Silver City, NM, surrounded by the Gila Wilderness, a community of Earth stewards and conscious collaborators.

William Wildcat Coakee

Coakee began his Life in the Oklahoma Seminole Nation. He has practiced organic gardening since childhood, organic farming for much of his adult Life, and regenerative horticulture, food forestry, and wildland restoration for the last decade. The studies and practices which inform his agroecology and ecorestoration thought and work include western science soil biology/ecology; many realms of mycology, botany, ecology, and zoology; ecological anthropology and history; ethnobotany; herbalism; plant/fungi medicine work; “conventional” regenerative agriculture; ancient indigenous agroecology and ecological land management sciences; landscape water retention; wetland restoration; syntropic agroforestry; food forestry; desert reforestation; Miyawaki reforestation; and ecology/climate physics (including Biotic Pump Theory). He integrates these western science studies, modern agroecology and ecorestoration practices, indigenous agroecology traditions, anthropogenic landscape studies, food/medicine work, and ecological history into a coherent picture of what human relationship with Earth looks like when we act as a steward species. Coakee lives in the Mimbres watershed near the Gila wilderness area, in the unceded lands of the living Chiricahua peoples, of the Brown Bear, of the Jaguar, of the Beaver, and of the Forests and Wetlands which stood there

400 years ago.