Masters in Environmental Management from Yale University. She is a Nancy W. Anderson Award Recipient, the Founder of the Northeast Healthy Soil Network, and an Attorney licensed in VT. Josie is a regenerative agriculture food systems thinker and converts from global governance (UN level) to Northeast bioregional level climate resilience. In her joint law/masters program she analyzed pathways of strengthening the local scale of U.S. government program infrastructure, Rights of Nature law, and indigenous sovereignty law as the foundation of this work - to support the original philosophers and practitioners of ecologically integrated culture and economy.