Honoring the Interconnections between Land, Water, and the Human Heart
Channel: Ecoversities
Date: 2022-03-03

Growing the Next Generation of Ecological Leaders co-hosted and organized by the Global Peace Initiative of Women.

This activity was led by:

Alex Epstein, an earthling, organizer, artist, farmer, educator, and student of the universe. Alex has spent 16 years building bridges across differences, organizing radically inclusive communities, and advocating for social & environmental justice. Alex believes deeply in the importance of local action and collaborative leadership, and is passionate about inspiring young people to find their role in creating sustainable social change. 

Crystal L. Forman, MPH, MHA, Owner and educator of Holistic Wellness and Health. Holistic Wellness and Health makes healthy living easy, nutritious, delicious and fun with a focus on plant-based foods to help you live a healthier, compassionate and more vibrant life. Crystal uses a whole person approach focused on mind, body, soul and spirit to improve the quality of life for all beings. Holistic Wellness and Health offers healthy plant-based cooking classes, wellness workshops, health coaching, gardening consultation, and mindfulness meditation. 

Javed Omardeen, who lives and practices organic and ecologically sustainable farming in Brasso Seco, a small mountain village in the Caribbean island of Trinidad. He works on an evolving farming system that aims to support, nourish and enrich both native and cultivated species, while providing food for humans. He believes that we can observe the forest and gain many insights and hints into how we should model our farming systems.

Shephali  Patel, a traditional ecologist, regenerative farmer, and educator. Through a lens of “land as pedagogy” she designs and facilitates several flagship educational programs to train beginner farmers, K-12 youth, and climate activists that empower them to develop pathways of access to underserved communities, and lay the foundations for a more-than-human future powered by ancestral wisdom and interspecies collaboration.

This session was recorded at the Re-Imagining Education Conference 2.0, hosted by the Ecoversities Alliance and partnering organizations and communities from around the world. It is an annual online conference to radically re-imagine the future of higher education.
In 2022 it was held from February 24th to the 27th.
http://ecoversities.org
http://re-imagining.education