The ACRE Community of Practice

Connect with a trained member of the ACRE Community of Practice to contract for values-driven facilitation services in your food & farming community.

Kehinde Adewoye

Atlanta Metro Area, Georgia

Kristy Apostolides 

New York Metro Area

Erin Arneson

Savannah, Georgia

Tera Ashley

Nashville, Tennessee

Marissa Baron

New Jersey

Amy Baskes

Columbus, Ohio

Karl Binns Jr 

Salisbury, Maryland

Aoife Bird

Providence, Rhode Island

Jeanine Cava

New Jersey

Lana Chehabeddine

Miami-Ft Lauderdale, Florida

Mandy Coriston

Northwest New Jersey


Lin Diaz Maceo

Berlin, Germany

Jenny Doty

Lenexa, Kansas

Abbey Draut

Wichita, Kansas

Amy Draut

Wichita, Kansas

Romain Dureau

Quebec, Canada

Eugenia Gusev

United States


Sarah Hanson

West Lafayette, Indiana

Duncan Hilchey

Ithaca, New York

Kim Hines

Washington DC

Ed Hunt

Pembroke, North Carolina

Sam Lev

Arizona

Melissa Levy

Hinesburg, Vermont

Mike Lewis

Danville, Kentucky

Tshering Llamo

Greater Paris Metro, France

Jade Lo

Ithaca, New York

Katie Kennedy

New Jersey

Amy Kincaid

Washington DC

Carmen Lyttle-N'guessan

Tallahassee, Florida

Elias Martinez

Buffalo/Niagra Falls, New York


AJ NagleCork, Ireland


Kenneth O'ConnellCork, Ireland

Kimsor OengCork, Ireland


Martha Page

Hartford, Connecticut


Virginia Pleasant

Chicago Metro Area, Indiana

Sara Prout

Washington State


Jennifer Schrum

New Brunswick, New Jersey

Mim Seidel

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania


Roberta Severson

Onodaga, New York

Karen Hiniker Simons

Katohah, New York

Jodee SmithBloomington, Indiana

Lily SussmanMissoula, Montana


Rachel Tayse

Columbus, Ohio

Fru Wanka

Cape Town, South Africa

Courtney Watson
Columbia, South Carolina

Hannah Wheatcraft

Seattle, Washington

Rachel Wilson

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Joan Wilson

Atlanta, Georgia





The ACRE Community of Practice is open to all who have completed the ACRE Facilitator Training.

For more information on this training, click here.



CONTRACT AN ACRE FACILITATOR

To connect with and contract a trained ACRE Facilitator in your area, please reach out to a member of the ACRE Community of Practice directly.


PROMOTE ACRE IN YOUR COMMUNITY

To explain the ACRE Process for collection action projects in your food/ag community, feel free to use these promotional materials.

* ACRE Online Brochure w/links 

* ACRE Brochure Video w/music 


ATTEND QUARTERLY GATHERINGS

The ACRE Community of Practice meets quarterly to share best practices using ACRE, increase collaborative opportunities, and conduct continuing education. We recognize values-based facilitation as a core expertise needed for the development of local and regional food systems.

UPCOMING GATHERINGS:

* TUE, DEC 10, 2024, 3PM-4PM EST


PARTICIPATE IN FEATURED CONTINUING EDUCATION  OPPORTUNITIES

NAFSN encourages ACRE Facilitators to further their skills and understanding of the role that facilitation plays in collective action initiatives in food/ag.

This year we feature:

Value Chain Coordination Training, an asynchronous course that takes about 3 hours to complete, offered at no cost, by the Wallace Center's Food Systems Leadership Network.


SUBMIT ACRE CASE STUDIES

Are you an ACRE Facilitator who is actively using ACRE in your food/ag community? Please consider writing an ACRE Case Study for publication on our website to help inform others.

Access our template here.


PRACTICE CONSENT-BASED DECISION MAKING

ACRE utilizes consent-based decision making to level power, focus on solutions, and streamline process when a group of individuals with diverse interests aims to make a series of decisions efficiently to benefit the whole.

This process, with roots in sociocracy, is followed by all NAFSN projects, including ACRE. Read more here.