Food Justice and Policy Lecturer
In addition to my teaching in the UMASS Sustainable Food and Farming Program, I am a front-line community food systems organizer, educator, network facilitator, capacity builder, and evaluator/learning partner living in Western MA. I bring to my work a commitment to social change and a belief in the potential of groups of people coming together to create powerful solutions to complex, entrenched social issues. I do this work through two entities: Fertile Ground and Partnership in Practice.
Fertile Ground LLC (http://fertilegroundllc.org) works with community organizations, state and local municipalities, and investors to facilitate strategic thinking, cultivate multi-stakeholder collaborations, generate story, and co-create impact assessment tools to advocate for long term systemic and policy change. Central to our work is developing organizational readiness for racial equity and justice, and providing tools to manage conflict and grow resilient partnerships across race and class.
With Carol Stewart, Partnership in Practice, provides institutions with mediation and facilitation of transformative conversations about equity, privilege, and undoing racism. Since 2009 we have supported collective healing and transformative skill building with groups working in food access, public health, higher education, K-12 institutions, and LGBQT organizations.
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About Catherine Sands
In addition to my teaching in the UMASS Sustainable Food and Farming Program, I am a front-line community food systems organizer, educator, network facilitator, capacity builder, and evaluator/learning partner living in Western MA. I bring to my work a commitment to social change and a belief in the potential of groups of people coming together to create powerful solutions to complex, entrenched social issues. I do this work through two entities: Fertile Ground and Partnership in Practice.
Fertile Ground LLC (http://fertilegroundllc.org) works with community organizations, state and local municipalities, and investors to facilitate strategic thinking, cultivate multi-stakeholder collaborations, generate story, and co-create impact assessment tools to advocate for long term systemic and policy change. Central to our work is developing organizational readiness for racial equity and justice, and providing tools to manage conflict and grow resilient partnerships across race and class.
With Carol Stewart, Partnership in Practice, provides institutions with mediation and facilitation of transformative conversations about equity, privilege, and undoing racism. Since 2009 we have supported collective healing and transformative skill building with groups working in food access, public health, higher education, K-12 institutions, and LGBQT organizations.
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