Shephali (she/her) is a traditional ecologist, farmer, educator, and artist-activist. Her work is focused on building models and thought leadership around ecological stewardship, restoration, education, and justice that centers equity, dignity, and interconnection. As a farmer, she is learning not only how to grow food to feed stomachs and soil, but also how to nourish social and racial justice movements so intimately tied with the Earth. As an educator, she strives to engender the study of the original 3 R's - regeneration, reverence, and re-membering. As a climate activist, she continues to feed the mycelial networks for post-paradigm futures and engage in council and earth activism work with organizations like Global Peace Initiative of Women, Earth Holder Community, Community Alliance for Global Justice, Just Food NYC, etc. As a human being, she strives to walk everything back to and center Love.

Through a lens of “land as pedagogy” she has designed and facilitated several flagship educational and creative programs to train beginner farmers, K-12 youth, and climate activists in developing pathways of access to underserved communities, and laying the foundations for a more-than-human future powered by ancestral wisdom and interspecies collaboration. In the spaces between, you can find her staring at stars, obsessing over trees, practicing yoga and qi gong, listening to rivers, learning Afro-Cuban percussion, and falling into the ocean over and over again.