Stephanie Morningstar (She/They)
Co-founder, Co-director, Board President- Relationships and Reciprocity Program
Stephanie is Mohawk with her mother’s ancestors rooted in Six Nations of the Grand River Territory (Schuler/Hope/Powless) and her father’s ancestors from Western and Eastern Europe. She is a plant nerd, medicine tender, bridge builder, soil and seed steward, scholar, student, and Earth Worker dedicated to decolonizing and liberating minds, hearts, and land- one plant, person, ecosystem, and non-human being at a time. She loves to learn and share stories about medicines; builds soil and reintegrates mycelium at Sky World Apothecary and Farm; teaches about the plant-human-non-human-ancestral connection through a decolonial lens at Seed, Soil, + Spirit School; and liberates land with and for Indigenous, Black, and people of color as the Relationships and Reciprocity Co-Director at the Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust. Stephanie is a Ph.D. student in the Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies Graduate Program focusing her work on Biocultural Re-storyation at the SUNY College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry’s Center for Native Peoples and the Environment.