Her Many Voices Foundation is delighted to welcome Kellie Berns, Program Director for Earth Guardians, to share about the important work of their organization. Earth Guardians trains and empowers youth to be effective leaders at the intersections of the environment and climate justice movements. Using art, music, storytelling, civic engagement, legal and direct action we inspire solutions to the critical issues we face as a global community.
Kellie is a student, mentor, spiritual practitioner, lover of the earth, and community organizer who has a passion for being of service to help foster spaces of peace, justice, empowerment, healing, and beauty.
Her inspiration comes from many years of Buddhist and Yogic practices, along with time spent learning from Indigenous relatives of North America.
Kellie is one of the co-visionary behind Earth Guardians’ Indigenous Youth Leadership Initiative, as well Earth Guardians’ Project Grants Program, Hemp educational series, PPE and Tribal Nations Initiative, and is currently overseeing EG’s campaigns, leadership trainings, partnerships, and youth staff Program Directors.
In the past, Kellie was the co-manager/co-founder of the Ahimsa House in West Philadelphia, a community center founded on Buddhist principles which merges activism, anti-capitalist practices, and spirituality. Kellie is a graduate of Smith College, a graduate and former faculty at the Pacific Center of Awareness and Bodywork in Kauai, and a co-founder of the Studio 34 Yoga Teacher Training Program.
Kellie sits on the Board of The international Nonprofit the Pureland Project and the Ahimsa House Church.
Utilizing 10 years of campaign and community organizing, alongside many years of meditation, a private healing arts practice, and farming/gardening, Kellie strives to create a world where people once again live in balance and harmony with each other and the land.
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