Alison is a wife, a mom, and a context junkie. She loves helping people accomplish big things, with a practical mindset, and she is passionate about building relationships and community, food systems, and being a good person. She has worked in the food and farm world for the past two decades in everything from farming, to catering, to nonprofit management. She is a certified permaculture designer, and lover of wild places.

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Andrew is a restoration practitioner, farmer, and advocate for healthy waterways. He has a deep reverence for complex, functioning ecosystems that has influence all of his major life decisions. He’s paddled many waterways, is handy with a tractor and chainsaw, and loves tall socks.

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Jakob is a human, father and husband. He works primarily with beavers and people, focusing on the restoration of complex natural processes and relationships that create and maintain resilient habitat and its wildlife. Jakob spends much of his time assisting humans to coexist with beavers where they have conflicting ideas about habitat. He also sings to himself, loves flying kites and can’t spell.

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Jason is an adventurer, cyclist and entrepreneur. He lives along a river with beavers and is an advocate for their rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Jason has sailed around world (including solo handling his 46’ boat “Otimballoo” across the 400-mile windward passage from the Virgin Islands to Grenada). He enjoys growing fig trees and spending time with his children and grandchildren.

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Odette is a biologist, dancer and adventurer. She works as a senior biologist at an engineering and environmental consulting firm in Santa Barbara California, where she has spent the last six years garnering field experience in toxics remediation and habitat restoration. She has a love for many aspects of the performing arts and has traveled internationally as a professional ballerina. She believes in being inquisitive.

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