ABOUT US

We each carry a blueprint for systemic change.

Regenerate Change supports organizational leaders and individual changemakers in designing their unique contributions to social regeneration.

ABRAH DRESDALE

JASMINE FUEGO

Abrah Dresdale and Jasmine Fuego co-founded the organization in 2017 as a national platform to connect and train changemakers and cultural artists engaged across numerous sectors of society.

In 2019, Jasmine pivoted her career to digital media making, and Adam Brock, a Denver-based social entrepreneur and a national leader in the social permaculture movement, joined Abrah to co-direct Regenerate Change.

Our team members bring over three decades of combined experience in ecological design applied to social change. We’ve enthusiastically co-founded thriving nonprofits and cooperatives, facilitated transformational experiences for thousands of budding visionaries, consulted for dozens of national and international organizations, and published two of the foundational texts in the emerging fields of social permaculture and regenerative social design.

Regenerate Change is fiscally sponsored by Empowerment Works, a 501(c)-3.

Abrah Dresdale and Jasmine Fuego co-founded the organization in 2017 as a national platform to connect and train changemakers and cultural artists engaged across numerous sectors of society.

Our team members bring over three decades of combined experience in ecological design applied to social change. We’ve enthusiastically co-founded thriving nonprofits and cooperatives, facilitated transformational experiences for thousands of budding visionaries, consulted for dozens of national and international organizations, and published two of the foundational texts in the emerging fields of social permaculture and regenerative social design.

Regenerate Change is fiscally sponsored by Empowerment Works, a 501(c)-3.

OUR TEAM

ABRAH DRESDALE

Abrah Dresdale, M.A., (she/her) is a cultural artist, visionary educator, and consultant in the fields of regenerative social design, prison food justice, and Jewish earth-based traditions. Abrah is on Faculty in the Sustainable Food and Farming program at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and at Omega Institute’s Center for Sustainable Living.

In founding both the nationally acclaimend Farm and Food Systems degree program at Greenfield Community College and the Franklin County Jail-to-Farm-to-College & Employment program, Abrah leads with her ability to envision systems change on the ground and enact it. As a core organizer of the Northeast Prison Food Justice movement, she has curated conference tracks on the subject at Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA), Farm-to-Institution New England (FINE), and the Northeast Prison Garden Collaborative

She served a David Bird Ecological Design Fellow to India and an Africa Conflict Transformation Fellow to Rwanda. As a cultural artist dedicated to justice and healing, she is well versed in anti-oppression work, systemic constellations, rite of passge ritual design, and Jewish eco-social traditions. She teaches peer-to-peer counseling focused on eliminating racism. She is founder/director of Regenerate Change and author of Regenerative Design for Change Makers: A Social Permaculture Guidebook

Abrah is a spoken word poet who believes in the power of words to shape and call forth a liberated future into being. She lives with her beloved husband on a Jewish multi-family farm engaged in land-based reparations work in the Mahicantuck / Hudson Valley of New York.

Read more at abrahdresdale.com

ABRAH DRESDALE

Abrah Dresdale, M.A., (she/her) is a cultural artist, visionary educator, and consultant in the fields of regenerative social design, prison food justice, and Jewish earth-based traditions. Abrah is on Faculty in the Sustainable Food and Farming program at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and at Omega Institute’s Center for Sustainable Living.

 In founding both the nationally acclaimend Farm and Food Systems degree program at Greenfield Community College and the Franklin County Jail-to-Farm-to-College & Employment program, Abrah leads with her ability to envision systems change on the ground and enact it. As a core organizer of the Northeast Prison Food Justice movement, she has curated conference tracks on the subject at Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA), Farm-to-Institution New England (FINE), and the Northeast Prison Garden Collaborative

She served a David Bird Ecological Design Fellow to India and an Africa Conflict Transformation Fellow to Rwanda. As a cultural artist dedicated to justice and healing, she is well versed in anti-oppression work, systemic constellations, rite of passge ritual design, and Jewish eco-social traditions. She teaches peer-to-peer counseling focused on eliminating racism. She is founder/director of Regenerate Change and author of Regenerative Design for Change Makers: A Social Permaculture Guidebook

Abrah is a spoken word poet who believes in the power of words to shape and call forth a liberated future into being. She lives with her beloved husband on a Jewish multi-family farm engaged in land-based reparations work in the Mahicantuck / Hudson Valley of New York.

Read more at abrahdresdale.com

ADAM BROCK

Adam Brock (he/him) is a Denver-based cultural artist practicing regenerative social design. For over a decade, he has worked to create the conditions for regenerative relationships among individuals, grassroots initiatives, and institutions throughout the country.

As co-founder of food justice nonprofit The GrowHaus, Adam led the transformation of an abandoned half-acre greenhouse into an award-winning hub for healthy food and urban agriculture. While at GrowHaus, Adam co-chaired Denver’s Sustainable Food Policy Council, spoke at TEDxMileHigh, and was named one of “Colorado’s Top Thinkers” by the Denver Post.

A trained permaculture designer since 2008, Adam has led over a dozen Permaculture Design Courses and is a national leader in the field of social permaculture. In 2017, Adam published Change Here Now: Permaculture Strategies for Personal And Community Transformation, a recipe book for social change inspired by the more-than-human world. Since 2019, Adam has served as co-director at Regenerate Change, a national consulting and education group focused on regenerative social design.

ADAM BROCK

Adam Brock (he/him) is a Denver-based cultural artist practicing regenerative social design. For over a decade, he has worked to create the conditions for regenerative relationships among individuals, grassroots initiatives, and institutions throughout the country.

As co-founder of food justice nonprofit The GrowHaus, Adam led the transformation of an abandoned half-acre greenhouse into an award-winning hub for healthy food and urban agriculture. While at GrowHaus, Adam co-chaired Denver’s Sustainable Food Policy Council, spoke at TEDxMileHigh, and was named one of “Colorado’s Top Thinkers” by the Denver Post.

A trained permaculture designer since 2008, Adam has led over a dozen Permaculture Design Courses and is a national leader in the field of social permaculture. In 2017, Adam published Change Here Now: Permaculture Strategies for Personal And Community Transformation, a recipe book for social change inspired by the more-than-human world. Since 2019, Adam has served as co-director at Regenerate Change, a national consulting and education group focused on regenerative social design.

ASIA DORSEY

Asia Dorsey (she/her) embraces the earth. Ear to the soil, she heeds the instruction of mineral, microbial, and botanical beings. She uses her gift of pattern recognition to embed organizational culture with the ethics of earth care, people care and fair share. She studied Non-Profit Management at the Wagner School for Public Service at New York University from 2012-2014 and uses her training in Kingian Non-Violence facilitation to create frameworks for beloved communities. Asia draws from her nourishing permaculture apprenticeship with Kay Baxter of the Koanga Institute and Vandana Shiva of Navdanya in seeding indigenous centered Permaculture Design and Social Permaculture Design education with the Denver Permaculture Guild. She has centered ecological design in building her own, regenerative worker’s cooperative, the Five Points Fermentation Company in 2016 and as a current Coop Educator and Board Member of the Community Wealth Building Network.

Ever the Afrofuturist, Asia has collaborated with and been shaped by Black Quantum Futurism as a quirky performance artist at national exhibitions such as TimeCamp and the Pan African Arts Festival. As a Black arts curator and founding member of the Palm Wine Collective. Asia ensures that the frameworks for world building center joy, creativity and pleasure. She has, to this end, become a pillar of play using art, authentic relating and performance to cultivate strategic imagination through her innovative Dreamplay modality. She engages communities and organizations in dreaming themselves back home.

From this dreaming, Asia perpetuates the notion that home is in our bodies and facilitates from frameworks of Healing Justice to shape everyday organizations to embody liberation. Asia has personally, grounded and centered Black bodies in these libratory futures as a teacher and Cofounder of the Satya Yoga Cooperative and as bioregional herbalist and disciple of Herbal Medicine as People’s Medicine. How can we shape our organizations to heal the environment, to heal our communities and to heal ourselves?

Be in inquiry with Asia at www.bonesbugsandbotany.com, @bonesbugsandbotany and www.patreon.com/bonesbugsandbotany

ASIA DORSEY

Asia Dorsey (she/her) embraces the earth. Ear to the soil, she heeds the instruction of mineral, microbial, and botanical beings. She uses her gift of pattern recognition to embed organizational culture with the ethics of earth care, people care and fair share. She studied Non-Profit Management at the Wagner School for Public Service at New York University from 2012-2014 and uses her training in Kingian Non-Violence facilitation to create frameworks for beloved communities. Asia draws from her nourishing permaculture apprenticeship with Kay Baxter of the Koanga Institute and Vandana Shiva of Navdanya in seeding indigenous centered Permaculture Design and Social Permaculture Design education with the Denver Permaculture Guild. She has centered ecological design in building her own, regenerative worker’s cooperative, the Five Points Fermentation Company in 2016 and as a current Coop Educator and Board Member of the Community Wealth Building Network.

Ever the Afrofuturist, Asia has collaborated with and been shaped by Black Quantum Futurism as a quirky performance artist at national exhibitions such as TimeCamp and the Pan African Arts Festival. As a Black arts curator and founding member of the Palm Wine Collective. Asia ensures that the frameworks for world building center joy, creativity and pleasure. She has, to this end, become a pillar of play using art, authentic relating and performance to cultivate strategic imagination through her innovative Dreamplay modality. She engages communities and organizations in dreaming themselves back home.

From this dreaming, Asia perpetuates the notion that home is in our bodies and facilitates from frameworks of Healing Justice to shape everyday organizations to embody liberation. Asia has personally, grounded and centered Black bodies in these libratory futures as a teacher and Cofounder of the Satya Yoga Cooperative and as bioregional herbalist and disciple of Herbal Medicine as People’s Medicine. How can we shape our organizations to heal the environment, to heal our communities and to heal ourselves?

Be in inquiry with Asia at www.bonesbugsandbotany.com, @bonesbugsandbotany and www.patreon.com/bonesbugsandbotany

OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES

RIGHT RELATIONSHIP

In societies founded on fragmentation, reconnection is a revolutionary act. When changemakers grow their capability of imaging wholeness and cultivating reciprocal relationships with others and the more-than-human world, unforeseen cultural healing takes place.

PRACTICING SOLIDARITY

Accountability to the impacts of colonization, white supremacy, and patriarchy begins with acknowledging our relationships to these systems. We work to dismantle oppression across scales while resourcing efforts led by frontline communities to create new societies defined by collective liberation.

EMBRACING EDGE

We believe the greatest potential for change occurs at the ever-shifting edge between the ideal and the possible. We aspire to nimbly navigate that edge, continually re-evaluating social contexts as they shift and evolving our own practices in response.

CHANGEMAKING ACROSS SCALES

We aim to shift culture fractally. Recognizing that regenerative solutions start with the individual and one-on-one relationships, we cultivate personal capacities for change while pursuing design interventions in larger systems, working in coalition with allies and network partners.

LEADING FROM LINEAGE

We stand squarely in our ancestral and intellectual lineages, honoring the cultural pathways and specific leaders who’ve influenced our offerings. We are humbled to be in the embrace of those ancestors who’ve created and recreated culture in service of life.

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