Hi, I’m Julia. I am an ecological embodiment practitioner, land-based educator, and consultant guided by frameworks of collective liberation.

My mission is to foster ecological healing by:

  • addressing the root causes of socio-ecological harm through education, consulting, and embodied healing

  • provide land-based learning, play, and ecological literacy opportunities for children & youth

  • excavate & undermine colonial paradigms of human supremacy amidst escalating socioecological crises

I practice & value

Ancestral Regeneration

 I regenerate ancestral roots that extend deeper than whiteness/Empire, and reclaim ancestral wisdom as a necessary part of cultivating embodied belonging within the web of life.

Ecological Relationality

I include the felt and embodied sense of more-than-human relationships in my understanding of myself and sense of belonging within the web of life.

Right Relationship

Understanding myself as not separate from the land but rather a part of it leads me to work toward divestment from the systems and paradigms that continues to desecrate and harm it. Right relationship arises when we know ourselves as belonging to a place to whom we are beholden.

Relationships of Mutuality

I seek to create spaces where learning and connection is cross-directional + mutual, and where the land and earth is allowed to be our greatest teacher.

about

Julia holds a B.A. in Environmental Studies (with concentration in Political Ecology) from Colorado College and is currently an M.A. candidate in Anthropology & Social Change at the California Institute of Integral Studies. She has supported a myriad of environmental and Indigenous organizations in a variety of capacities - from research and communications support to administrative and development support.

Outside of formal academic training, she has received mentorship and teachings in decolonial care-work and shadow work from Doctora Rocio Rosales Meza; decolonial political education from Anjali Nath of Liberation Spring; & training in decolonial frameworks from Native Movement. She is committed to the path of politicized ancestral healing, and has been supported on this path of ancestral root-tending & reclamation by Marybeth Bonfiglio and Gail Faith Edwards, who have guided her in reclaiming earth-based ancestral wisdom. She has training in folk herbalism from both of these teachers along with Muddy River Herbals, and holds a certificate in Permaculture Design from South Shore Permaculture.

She is a forever unlearning Mama guided by & committed to frameworks for collective liberation. She lives on unceded Wampanoag territory. She recognizes settler-colonization as an ongoing process, and that its’ replicating root-structures continue to harm the lands and waters of this area (and Turtle Island at large.) She recognizes herself as complicit in those structures and is committed to the lifelong, messy work of envisioning & seeding alternative lifeways for future relatives.