Starhawk (she/her) is the co-founder and executive director of Earth Activist Training. One of the foremost voices in Earth-based spirituality, Starhawk is an author, activist, and permaculture teacher and designer. Her 12 books include such beloved reads as The Spiral Dance, The Earth Path, and The Fifth Sacred Thing. Starhawk drew from 30 years of living collectively to write The Empowerment Manual, which is the basis for her social permaculture course, Empowering Collaborative Groups.

Starhawk has been recognized by the Permaculture Institute of North America (PINA) as a leading figure in permaculture and has been awarded dual diplomas for excellence in education and permaculture site design.

Best known as an articulate voice in the revival of Earth-based spirituality and Goddess religion, Starhawk is the co-founder of the Reclaiming movement, an activist branch of the modern Pagan religion. In partnership with Donna Read, Starhawk is the co-founder of Belili Productions film company, whose most well-known project was a trio of popular films on the Goddess religion.

Starhawk’s work in progressive activism has spanned generations and geographies. As a global justice and peace activist, Starhawk co-founded RANT: Root Activists’ Network of Trainers, and has taught non-violent direct action across North and South America, Europe, and the Middle East. She has been on the front lines of anti-nuclear actions at Diablo Canyon, Livermore Weapons Lab, Vandenberg Air Force Base, and the Nevada Test Site. She has been a witness for peace in conflict zones across the world, including Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Palestine and Israel.

As a teacher of magical activism and permaculture education, Starhawk’s life work takes her across the globe. She currently lives part-time in San Francisco in a collective house with her partner and friends, and part-time in a little hut in the woods in Cazadero, California, where she practices permaculture in her extensive gardens and writes. Her website is http://starhawk.org.

Patty Love (she/her) is a perpetually curious Earth Activist Training-certified permaculture teacher and designer. Patty is the instructor of Regenerative Business Design and coach for Maven Makers small business coaching group. Patty has 30 years of experience in business with a focus on education and consulting. She holds nationally recognized certification through the Professional Business Coaches Alliance, with five years personally participating in small business coaching as a group member. Throughout all her work, Patty applies regenerative design to create thriving business practices.

Residing on occupied Haudenosaunee Territory (known as Rochester, New York), Patty practices permaculture, edible forest gardening, and social permaculture. Patty is the owner of a small business, Barefoot Edible Landscape & Permaculture, and an organizer in her local community around food justice. She is the founder of the Rochester Permaculture Center and Lots of Foods program; and the former treasurer of the Permaculture Association of the Northeast (PAN).

Delyla Wilson, engaged Grr-Parent and resilience visionary, began her journey into resilient living as an environmental, social justice, and animal rights activist. Her path includes farmstead learning and living, community street medicine, disaster preparedness, permaculture, and decades of animal management experience with a special focus on all things dogs. Delyla acquired an Earth Activism Training Permaculture Design Certificate; developed and directed the Skills for a New Millennium Tour (a three-year traveling resilience education tour), and earned a Masters in Interdisciplinary Studies focused on Resilience Education for Disaster Preparedness.
Delyla’s energy is focused on resilience education both as a teacher and life-long student. Delyla seeks to weave resilience into every system throughout the web. Delyla currently is developing lines of homestead working dogs and keeps cows, goats, chickens, and sheep for land management, soil building, carbon sequestering, and dinner.

Pandora Thomas (she/her) has taught social permaculture and Permaculture Teacher Training for Women with Earth Activist Training. Pandora 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. She is the founder and steward of 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 teacher, author,  designer, and curriculum developer with a focus on urban permaculture and green building for youth.

Leila Darwish (she/her) is a community organizer and disaster response and recovery worker with a deep commitment to supporting communities on the frontlines of climate change and disaster. Leila has worked in emergency management in the United States and Canada for various government agencies and disaster non-profits, responding to major storms, floods, hurricanes, wildfires, heat waves, and the COVID-19 pandemic. She is especially passionate about accessible and inclusive disaster response and recovery, mutual aid, climate resilience, food security, and post-disaster bioremediation and ecological restoration.

In addition to her disaster response and recovery work, Leila has taught bioremediation and oil spill response courses in communities across North America for over a decade. Leila is the author of, “Earth Repair: A Grassroots Guide to Healing Toxic and Damaged Landscapes“(New Society Publishers: print, ebook, audiobook). She has worked as a community organizer for environmental justice organizations across Canada and the USA on a variety of climate justice and watershed protection campaigns We are proud to call Leila a graduate of Earth Activist Training’s Permaculture Design Certificate course and teaches Bioremediation & Earth Repair

Alfred Decker is an award-winning permaculture designer, a certified educator with the Permaculture Association of Britain, and one of Europe’s leading permaculture educators. Since his first PDC in 1998 in California (where Alfred and Starhawk were students together), he has been involved with permaculture projects and social movements and projects throughout Europe and the Americas. Based in Catalunya (Spain), Alfred is the founder of the 12P Permaculture Design consultancy, and teaches widely throughout Europe. These days he is dedicated to facilitating permaculture teacher trainings with a focus on refugees.

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Wanda Stewart (she/her) is an African American urban farmer, educator and comrade to many in the movement to teach and inspire others to grow themselves, their food and their communities. The executive director of Common Vision, a nonprofit organization organizing  school orchards and gardens as places of scholarship, health and equity, Wanda believes that cultivating food and medicine, maintaining a healthy being, and living cooperatively are essential skills for our collective survival. To support that learning, growth and healing, she revisits our shared history and trauma, reframing and reclaiming cultural knowledge and heritage while tending the land. Wanda aspires to be a model catalyst in the new world blooming. She knows in her heart – most especially now – that we must all “grow the power,” together. As a certified permaculture designer, community master gardener, and garden/life educator, what she specializes in and values most is garden-centered wellness and courageous conversations about race and our environment. Learn more about Wanda Stewart here.

RedBird Willie (he/him; 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. Redbird teaches Indigenous land management and fire ecology with Earth Activist Training. An artist who creates through basket weaving, regalia making, drawing, painting, sculpture, and graphic design, Redbird recently illustrated a children’s book, Adventures of Two Coast Miwok Children. Along with being a budding herbalist, Redbird is a land steward for the Cultural Conservancy and a core organizer of the annual Buckeye Gathering. Hear more from Redbird Willie here.

Kanyon “Coyote Woman” (Hahashkani) Sayers-Roods (she/her) is a Mutsun-Ohlone and Chumash Twospirit Indigenous person. Born and raised in Indian Canyon, Kanyon is an Ancestor-in-training, honoring the past to shape the future. She is proud of her heritage and her native name and is an active leader in her community. Kanyon is the co-founder and CEO of Kanyon Konsulting, LLC, where she strives to bridge the gap between Indigenous and contemporary value systems, focusing on Decolonization and Allyship. Her goal is to make a difference by sharing her life experiences and knowledge about California’s Native Americans, with an emphasis on promoting understanding of relationship between humanity and the natural world. Kanyon thrives as an artist, poet, author, activist, student, and teacher. Her art has been featured at the De Young Museum, the Somarts Gallery, Gathering Tribes, Snag Magazine, and numerous Powwows and Indigenous Gatherings. She is a graduate of the Art Institute of California with degrees in Web Design and Interactive Media.

Mariah Master (she/her) is the Program Administrator for Earth Activist Training, she assists students with registration, payments and is here for any questions you may have. She is a mother, indigenous woman, activist, herbalist, farmer and permaculture business owner. Her herbalism and activism work led to a nomadic lifestyle until deciding to root down in Colorado to become a mother where she now owns a permaculture business. As of recently she has been exploring the interconnections between birth work, and nature. 

 Sunshine Rose Claymore (they/them; Standing Rock Nation) is a co-teacher for the Permaculture Design Certificate and coordinator for the Regenerative Land Management diploma. Sunshine is an environmental scientist, permaculture designer and educator, doula, and mother from Standing Rock Reservation. They are the Board Secretary of the Mni Wiconi Integrated Health Clinic and Farm, and are dedicated to the collective planning for the Mni Wiconi Nakicizin Woundspe, a learning space designed to embrace Lakota culture while striving to meet community needs. As a student with Earth Activist Training, Sunshine is a graduate of the Sacred Earth Apprenticeship, Permaculture Design, Permaculture Teacher Training for Women; and will be the first graduating student of the Regenerative Land Management program.

Carin McKay (she/her) Is an amazing and talented chef who, along with her staff, caters many of Earth Activist Training events in California. Carin started her business Culinary Magic in 1999. A self-taught chef and world traveler, she incorporates these elements into her food. Culinary Magic views food as central to weaving together community, health, history, culture, lineage, and the environment.

Diane Perazzo (she/her) does live captioning for some Earth Activist Training events. Along with being an amazing captioner, she currently enjoys thinking about the intersection between art and regenerative agriculture and ways that visual artists, poets and storytellers can work together to support positive change in our evolving eco-system.  She is involved in a project called Sowing the Future which is very much about that.  Diane also writes poetry and stories for witches and pagans that is available here.

Sarah Comerford (they/them) has been a practicing sign language interpreter since 2010. Beginning in Honolulu, where they were trained and raised by the local Deaf community, in 2019 sarah relocated with their family to the Pacific Northwest, the ancestral homelands of the Kalapuyan people, who are still here, as are the native Hawaiian people still alive and defiant back home. They are passionately working to finish their master’s in Interpreting Studies from Western Oregon University, researching sign language interpreters’ occupational culture through a social justice lens. Their professional portfolio is available on Canva via this link https://tinyurl.com/25gl59dp