Natalie Topa

Permaculture Womens Guild

Natalie Topa is an Urban and Regional Planner by training. She moved to East Africa in 2005 to work on post-war town planning and reconstruction in South Sudan.

Cynthia Espinosa Marrero

Permaculture Womens Guild

Cynthia Espinosa Marrero is a food systems scholar and activist, helping diverse communities grow and learn more about food systems. Her passion was seeded with her family and neighbors in Yabucoa, Puerto Rico, where she grew up.

Sarah Wu

Permaculture Womens Guild

Sarah Wu is a clinical herbalist of 17 years, and is the Director and Educational Curator of the Punta Mona Center for Regenerative Design & Botanical Studies, an 85-acre permaculture farm in Costa Rica.

Rebecca Ellis

Permaculture Womens Guild

Becky Ellis, PhD, is a permaculture educator and community activist in London, Ontario, Canada. Becky maintains the blog Permaculture for the People and teaches about urban permaculture, community gardening, and gentle beekeeping.

Rowen White

Permaculture Womens Guild

Rowen White is a Seed Keeper from the Mohawk community of Akwesasne and the educational director and founder of the Sierra Seeds, and National Program Coordinator and advisor for the Indigenous Seed Keeper Network.

Charlie Gray

Permaculture Womens Guild

Charlie Gray is a linguist, ethnobotanist and teacher. She co-founded Horton Community Farm, where she runs horticultural therapy, forest schools and volunteer sessions growing food.

Hannah Hemmelgarn

Permaculture Womens Guild

Hannah Hemmelgarn is an experiential educator and homesteader in Columbia, MO where she works for the University of Missouri Center for Agroforestry and the Wild Folk Learning Community. After completing a degree in anthropology and sociology, she explored intentional community farm life.