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May 25, 2023

We sat down with Ancestral Healer, Gloria Ramirez who joined us as a participant in the NESAWG Track of the 2023 NOFA/Mass Winter Conference. Gloria Ramirez is a migrant born on Mayan Territory, now known as El Salvador in Central America. Gloria is a holistic medicine Healer with specialty in conflict resolution.

Jan 06, 2023

Recently, the NESAWG team got together to imagine our collective work in the years ahead. To help spark inspiration, we asked ourselves the same question we’d like to ask you now: What does liberation in 10 years mean to you?

Jan 01, 2023

NESAWG undertook this project in the fall of 2022 to begin to assess Northeast positioning going into the 2023 Farm Bill year. We asked network respondents about the quality and quantity of their congressional relationships, their priorities for the Farm Bill, and their needs for regional coordination. Here are the results.

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