Becoming a person of place is Cassandra’s orienting cosmology, and her activist real estate career is informed by this path. She became a real estate agent in 2003 as a single mom needing to support her family, and was compelled to understand how market capitalism prevents so many people from a direct and secure relationship with Earth. She committed early on to learning how to support cooperative living and to find ways to decommodify and deprivatize Land. As someone with mixed European settler ancestry, Cassandra is keenly aware of the paradox of how those with white colonial privilege have often been displaced from land-based culture. Cassandra listened her way forward, guided by the generosity of spirit, mentors, and friends who would help her co-found The Center for Ethical Land Transition. Through the work of ethical land transitions, Cassandra works to transform conventional real estate practice in service to Land, cultural reunion, and reparative justice.

Neha is committed to tapping into collective insight & foresight in order to restore & regenerate our relationship with the planet, primarily through strategy and partnerships. Currently, she focuses on strategy through an equity lens, remembering the commons, and repairing our relationship with land. In past chapters, she explored diverse & equitable clean energy economies, energy efficiency & intelligence in the built environment, facilitation for group alignment, and bridge building between disparate networks & nodes.

Jason’s work focuses on relationship, reflection, synthesis, and action. With a decade of experience in various educational settings, his latest ventures include land and facility management, as well as supporting organizations and humans at the thresholds of death and birth. He considers himself a story holder of Queer community wisdom and maintains active relationship with elders, living and dead. A lifelong learner and educator, he is always honing leadership skills that commit to process, participation, and patience, in pursuit of working to understand and dismantle unjust structures of power. Jason is excited to be applying his skills to the Land Justice movement in his work with the Center for Ethical Land Transition.

Abi’s work and life is infused with the desire to see our communities thriving and our planet healthy. Abi believes there is much work to do as we direct our energies towards a Just Transition and bright future for all. Accessibility to resources is an imperative piece to building a stable foundation on which our communities can thrive. Abi is dedicated to the rising of future generations and movement towards a regenerative economy which holds our planet and all life sacred. This life affirming vision is the weaving of all of our movements and collective work which aim to create the shifts we wish to see. Abi utilizes her spectrum of experience, cosmology, and deep commitment to the unseen generations to come in her work with C.E.L.T.