Larisa Jacobson, Braining Seeds Fellowship Advisor, (all pronouns) is a land steward, herbalist, and story booster tending seeds of transformation in this Upside Down World. With over 20 years of experience in farming, community health, agroecology, and learning programs, Larisa’s current work seeks to reclaim Black and Brown people’s connection with land, ancestral practices for calling the life and carbon back in to the soil during the age of climate crisis, and our sacred roles as mediators between soil and sky. Other past interwoven threads of experience include a project to amplify the stories shared by Black and Brown youth pushed out of high school and organizing for collective land reclamation and community self-determination by elders and youth living and growing food in public housing. Larisa has worked alongside farmers honoring the sacred importance of water and land stewardship in Mexico and Guatemala, worked/taught at the University of California Davis Student Experimental Farm, and managed a community farm outside Boston focused on offering land and culturally relevant food for migrant and refugee communities. Larisa brings fierce commitment to land rematriation and grappling with the often painful challenges of healing history. She acted as Farm Manager at Soul Fire for three years, 2017-2019.