I’ve been involved in the communities movement for over 35 years. Following my doctoral work on Children and Education in Contemporary Intentional Communities (which involved traveling to ~30 across North America), I worked with kids and families at the Findhorn Foundation in northern Scotland In 1992-1993. In 1998, I moved to Sirius Community in western Massachusetts and founded the non-profit Living Routes, which partnered with UMass-Amherst to run study abroad programs based in ecovillages around the world. Over 1,500 students were transformed by these immersive experiences. I left Living Routes in 2012 to start a new social venture called Earth Deeds, which offers online tools for individuals and groups to “onset” their unavoidable CO2 emissions and support meaningful sustainability projects. I was a co-founder and past Board Member of Gaia Education, founder and director of CAPE Consultancy, which develops Custom Academic Programs in Ecovillages, and served as President of the Global Ecovillage Network from 2015-2019. Most recently, I was living in Auroville (south India) before moving back to Findhorn in 2022 to serve as their Director of Education until April of 2023. I am now back at Sirius and in the role of Co-Director of the FIC!