Ma Earth
Community Tender
New York, New York, USA
Sophia Rokhlin, MSc, is an author, community builder, and animist bridging resources to projects that foster the thriving of life and diverse cultures on our beautiful planet. Her life’s work focuses on supporting the conservation of traditional ecological knowledge by advancing community-based solutions for land regeneration and protection. She is currently cultivating community with Ma Earth. Sophia is the co-author of When Plants Dream: Ayahuasca, Amazonian Shamanism, and the Global Psychedelic Renaissance (Watkins, 2019). Her research and writing have been featured in publications and podcasts including The Duncan Trussell Family Hour, The New York Times, Acne Paper Magazine, PBS, BBC, and others.
Offer
Here’s the revised version for clarity and punctuation: I bring a decade of experience living and working in partnership with Amazonian Indigenous peoples on land regeneration and cultural preservation projects. My graduate research was guided by leading economists in the fields of Degrowth and Ecological Economics. I have experience on both the giving and receiving ends of philanthropic work, and I am passionate about diversifying impact metrics. I am the co-author of a book on psychoactive plants and have a background in herbalism and ethnobotany. With this experience, I aim to bring integrated, more-than-human perspectives to ecological projects and the stakeholders we ought to consider. I am a passionate storyteller, informed equally by the sobering realities of the modern environmental movement and the relentless optimism and persistence of frontline communities impacted by life-blind economic development.
NEED
Looking for individuals and communities doing the real work of planting trees, regenerating degraded landscapes, restoring precious watersheds, and projects applying scalable solutions for funding and sustaining the flourishing of these initiatives.
Call-to-Action
Support, uplift and fund unglamorous, grounded, tried-and-true methods of regeneration and ecosystem restoration led by communities who know their lands best.
