2023 U.S. Regenerative Agriculture & Health Accelerator

Accelerating women-led land-based initiatives to solve our most pressing food and health challenges.
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women leaders working at the intersection of land, agriculture, health, and gender equity.

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Join a Powerful + Diverse Cohort

who are ready to accelerate their impact and deepen their work

2019 U.S. Accelerator cohort. Photo: Paige Green
2019 U.S. Accelerator cohort. Photo: Paige Green

WEA’s Grassroots Accelerators provide leadership, strategy, and technical training for women environmental leaders around the world. We identify women eco-entrepreneurs with solutions to their communities’ challenges, and invest in them through a year-long program — which includes in-person and remote training; mentorship; financing; and opportunities to build relationships and connections with a global alliance of peers, mentors, and funders — so that their solutions can grow, scale, and replicate.

The U.S. Regenerative Agriculture & Health Accelerator will bring together a diverse cohort of women leaders working in an array of intersectional areas — from agriculture and food sovereignty, to reproductive justice and maternal health, to traditional medicine and land-based care. Informed by a strong network of partner grassroots organizations from North America and around the world, this accelerator will generate measurable and sustained improvements to our environment, economies, and communities by strengthening and unifying women grassroots solutions across the country.

The world is calling you to expand your leadership.

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DEEPEN YOUR ACTION PLAN & IMPACT

As part of a national cohort, you will strengthen and unify women's agriculture and health initiatives, generating measurable and sustained impacts to our global environment, economies, and communities.

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NETWORK WITH LEADERS IN YOUR SECTOR

By joining this program you will join a national and global network of grassroots, environmental leaders, gaining access to new funding, best practices, allies, and visibility

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SHARE RESOURCES

You will gain skills in professional development, leadership, entrepreneurship, advocacy, communications, and technical solutions from global facilitators, regional experts, and cohort peers.

Through the Accelerator, you'll gain:

Skills in professional development, leadership, entrepreneurship, advocacy, communications, and technical solutions from facilitators, regional experts, and cohort peers

A comprehensive Action Plan to accelerate your climate/environmental initiative, including an impact framework & metrics, implementation strategy, timeline, and budget

Storytelling training & support as well as significant visibility for speaking, facilitation, and other leadership opportunities

Skill and knowledge exchange within Affinity Groups pressing deeper into the collective work you’re focusing on

Accelerator Seed Grant to grow their urgently needed, high-impact initiatives

Ongoing mentorship and direct technical assistance through WEA's Wisdom Keeper program, including skill and knowledge exchange within WEA's alumni alliance

WEA Leader Xochitl Bernadette Moreno (left), 2020 U.S. Accelerator.
WEA Leader Xochitl Bernadette Moreno (left), 2020 U.S. Accelerator.
WEA Leader AmyRose Foll, 2020 U.S. Accelerator.
WEA Leader AmyRose Foll, 2020 U.S. Accelerator.
WEA Leader Karen Crespo Triveño, 2021 US Accelerator
WEA Leader Karen Crespo Triveño, 2021 US Accelerator
WEA Leader Mackenzie Feldman (middle), 2021 US Accelerator
WEA Leader Mackenzie Feldman (middle), 2021 US Accelerator
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Here's what previous WEA U.S. Leaders are saying:

"This is the first space I've been in that has the absence of power dynamics. In St. Louis there is a fight for power, someone always has to be in power and someone always has to have power extracted from them. I ran from being called a leader, because leader is a title that gives people a false sense of power and it has been "leadership" that has sold my community out in St. Louis, but this is the first time I have ever been proud to call myself a leader."

TOSHA PHONIX  ·  2019 U.S. ACCELERATOR LEADER  · 2020 ALUMNI MENTOR

“The Earth is living, not a thing to be extracted from the earth is a relative...we do what we can to try to remember that...by actually singing and dancing and asking permission and having ceremony and honoring the land that gives us so much not just for the food but for the capacity to compost our trauma as a whole.”

LEAH PENNIMAN ·  2022 U.S. ACCELERATOR WISDOM KEEPER

“Every time we send a seed out, we send so much love with it. What is more hopeful than a seed that gets planted in the dark and has to fight its way out? But when it does, it brings such beauty and medicine and healing to us all.”

BETH ROACH  ·  2019 U.S. ACCELERATOR LEADER/2019-2022 WISDOM KEEPER

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