Our Team

Julie D. brings over two decades of experience leading strategic initiatives in regenerative agriculture, policy advocacy, and systems change work across sectors including affordable housing. She holds a master's degree from Antioch New England where she studied systems change and organizational management, and is currently a PhD fellow at the University of Vermont in the Sustainable Policy Development, Economics and Governance program focusing on food system governance.

Most recently, as Director of Program Integration with the Soil and Climate Initiative, she led internal and external strategy and coordination across various programs including regenerative transitions, verification systems, and supply chain collaborations across the network.

With 15-years of field research experience with Indigenous peoples and farmers in the Sahel, S. Africa, and the United States, Julie Snorek is a highly-skilled researcher and instructor on agricultural futures and systems transitions. She uses methodologies based in systems thinking to uncover and analyze power dynamics in climate adaptation, map communications flows and influence in broad-scale watershed management.

Her doctoral work in Environmental Science and Technology focused on conflict and climate change adaptation in farming and rangeland systems in Niger. She currently serves as an AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the USDA Office of the Chief Scientists.

Magenta is a fullstack developer, project manager, and organizational development specialist with 25 years of experience building globally networked bioregional economies. She brings different movement leaders together to strategize and share resources for community-led development and food security.

As the founder of BloomNetwork.earth, she leads teams in marketing, finance, community, tech and administration to build movement coherence and generous resource sharing among stakeholders. She was the systems architect for their regenerative economic protocol, which uses state-of-the-art blockchain technology. She has built applications for financial collaboration across regional stakeholders, stakeholder and local food business maps, searchable indexes for investors, philanthropists, and volunteers, and is currently exploring data unions for farmers so they can self-own their data for corporate partnerships.

Josie is an Earth Law attorney with training in property reform, conservation finance, and bioregional policy; she holds the deep structure. Her work braids land trust innovation, commons-aligned legal frameworks, storytelling, and non-extractive finance strategy into social ecosystems.

She designs cooperative and trust-based legal templates for hubs, flow funds, and food sovereignty projects, supports funder engagement and regulatory alignment, and leads storytelling, cultural mapping, and earth-centered governance design.