Sandy Wiggins
I currently serve as Chief Learning Officer for Future Tide Partners, an initiative of Rising Tide Capital that equips individuals and institutions to shift consciousness, culture, and capital towards an inclusive, flourishing future economy.
Since 2004, I have also been Principal of Consilience LLC, a national consultancy with a mission to foster inclusive and sustainable communities. And I am also a co-creator and faculty with the Choosing Earth Project, an initiative to foster understanding of the magnitude, speed, and depth of the challenges confronting humanity and the creative opportunities for transformation.
In the past, I’ve served as a national leader in the fields of Social Finance/Impact Investing, Local Living Economies, and Green Building. As a Sr. Advisor to RSF Social Finance and a member of RSF’s Field Building Collaborative, I founded and co-facilitated the Local Economy Foundation Circle, an initiative that helped philanthropies shift their corpora into place-based impact investments. Through my consultancy, Consilience, I’ve helped birth institutional impact investment strategies, regional sustainability public policy, corporate sustainability plans, community redevelopment plans and sustainable master plans in communities around the U.S. During my prior career in the real estate industry, I was responsible for the development of over sixty LEED certified commercial projects, one of the nation’s first Living Building Challenge projects, and one of the first Living Community Challenge projects.
I was also co-founder and Chair of e3bank, a triple bottom line bank focused on redirecting the flow of capital toward a sustainable world. I served for 10 years as Chair of BALLE (Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, now Common Future), and I was a past Chair of U.S. Green Building Council and the Founding Chair of Green Business Certification Inc. I was also Founding Chair of the Philadelphia based Green Building United, and a co-author of LEED for Neighborhood Development
I live in Washington, DC with my wife and daughter. I am a lifelong meditator and a certified Integrative Breathwork practitioner, certified GROF® Breathwork (holotropic) facilitator and Mindfulness Meditation teacher.
Gary Foresman
Permaculture designer and mostly residential landscape construction in that field for about ten years with a passion for most all things water: Rainwater harvesting, greywater systems, natural building and earth works, irrigation systems…
I have added interest in local politics, community building and art, and food and water resiliency.
Teri Ciacchi
please see my websites and the writings there. I am a visionary elder witch and thought leader in theintersections of Ecofeminist Ecosex and Psychedelics movements.
www.livingloverevolution.org
Daniel Chesney
I am an artist/musician turned activist. I currently work with the PROUT Institute and New Era Convergence Eugene studying and researching systems change implementation.
I am a divergent thinker. My expertise is in taking disparate systems and thought ecosystems and finding connective tissue between these systems. This expertise has been forged through a career in art and music that uses the material local to my practice to create novel envisionings of new worlds and systems that might exist in them.
Seth Bunev
I’m a writer and outdoor educator, I teach survival skills and experiment with appropriate technology.
Maria Jett
Farmer. Academic. Appalachian. Human rights champion.
Robert Bunge
4th generation Tacoma area resident. Active in outdoor recreation. Looking for community projects as I transition to retirement.
Will Monk
I’m Will, I’m always hungry, (and after 36 years i finally got an insulin pump, so yes, i can eat that), i sing (deep) bass, I’m a big (cishetwm) sissy, y yo quiero apprendar Español. I got a studio art BA, from (the school formerly known as) HSU, (far north California) which included theater, dance, music, Native American Studies, math and physics, various activist projects, and a lot of problems with my (T1D) diabetes.
I quickly realized that i had no idea how to use any of that to survive, and began working with children, construction, event staffing, etc.
Examples:
-TAing animation classes for kids at Berkeley City College,
-Tutoring junior high math and art
-“Street Outreach” team helping houseless people with Cooperation Humboldt (as well as planting free mini gardens etc)
-Currently hosting and teaching art and other open free creative classes with the Arcata Playhouse’s OurSpace Arts program
My favorite thing is probably storytelling (very broadly defined), I’m addicted to analogies, and my superpower is my ability to remain genuinely enthusiastic in a conversation about absolutely anything for way too long. My natal chart is a basketfull of dichotomies and tidal waves and I’ve been procrastinating whatever lesson that Yod has to teach me for far too long! I’m as liberal as you can get and I’d love to be your “ally” (or at least your humble “white savior”). I want to teach everyone and their kids how to do art, music, animation, etc on FLOSS. I can’t fix your computer or write a program, but I’ll happily model my neurodivergence in trying to figure it out together. Or better yet, help you plan/t a free little potato garden!
I’m probably the equivalent of a paralegal on the subject of federal disability discrimination, (APWU UNION YES), and probably an honorary MD on hyperlipotrophy, the Somogyi effect, catecholamine burnout as Hypoglycemia Unawareness, counterregulatory responses, the resulting autonomic failure, hyperimmune “diseases” like lupus, and ptsd.
WARNING: My next hobby rabbit hole is learning to ID native and invasive plants and their relationships to us. Unless I get distracted by the beautiful Phidippus genus…
My mastodon account is: @StorieswithaWill@fosstodon.org,
and instgm at WCMonk.
Christian Monroe
I recently moved to Portland from Denver at the start of last September although I’ve been all around the Cascadia region since I was really young, lots of hiking and outdoors stuff at national parks made me really fall in love with the PNW as a whole and I’m happy I finally got to move here. I’ve been a huge environmentalist and progressive since I was about 16 and now at the age of 22 I’m trying to reach out and help groups that represent my ideals and passions for both the planet and the people that live on it. I am very willing to learn all that I can and assist in anyway I can with preserving our forests and helping our people.
Andra Vltavín
I am a climate activist with a background in creative reuse running for Portland City Council in District 4. I have read Braiding Sweetgrass, My Grandmother’s Hands, Breaking Together, Mutual Aid, and many other books to try to help me understand the depth of the crisis we are in and how to help in an intersectional way. I am a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and a Neighborhood Emergency Team member through Portland.
