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Founder, Urban Permaculture Guild
Kat's Convergence Blog Kat Steele is a permaculture activist, designer and educator. She founded the Urban Permaculture Guild in Oakland, California in 2002. She facilitates workshops on urban sustainability, ecovillage design, natural building, permaculture, eco-social leadership. permaculture teacher trainings and as well as publicly speaks about the power and practice of urban permaculture design, city repair and placemaking. Kat teaches and consults at various institutions across California including the Solar Living Institute, Esalen Institute, The San Francisco Botanical Garden, Laney College, the Alameda Point Collaborative, Merritt College, The Randall Museum, Solstice Grove Institute, LA Ecovillage and UC Berkeley Extension.
Trained in Ecovillage Design with the Findhorn Foundation of Scotland, Natural Building with Kleiwerks International and Permaculture Design with the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center she also holds an MA in Creative Arts from San Francisco State University. With a recent focus on developing Green Collar Job Training and ongoing focus on networking and collaboration Kat has been active member and in leadership roles with the East Bay Permaculture Guild and Bay Area Regional Permaculture Convergence teams for the past four years.
She presently serves on the boards of two Bay Area Non-Profit Organizations devoted to Peace, Justice and Sustainablity. The NorCal Chapter of Architects, Designers, Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR) in Berkeley and Bay Localize in Oakland. In 2006 became one of a first 1,000 trainees of Al Gore's Climate Change project. Kat loves to facilitate experiential transformational learning community experiences.
www.urbanpermacultureguild.org
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