About your speakers

Rev. Sara Jolena Wolcott

Sara Jolena is a minister, healer, educator, entrepreneur, and speaker. She is a descendant of the founding families of the United States and trained as an eco-theologian and minister at Union Theological Seminary and in sustainable development at the Institute of Development Studies in Sussex, England. Her ancestors engaged closely with people from the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.

After years of working on climate change, interactions with Haudenosaunee peoples and teachings led her to realize that, contradictory to what she was taught in school, climate change arises from colonization and results from the First Harm. Her teachings on historical context as part of building capacity for restorative practices and her 1-1 spiritual direction offerings has consistently proven supportive of restorative practitioners. She currently lives in the Hudson Valley, NY, on the homelands of the Mohican peoples.

Kristine is a member of the Beaver Clan, Tuscarora Nation, Haudenosaunee Confederacy.

After over 20 years as an educator, auditor, and a parent of four children on the Tuscarora Nation, she now serves as an indigenous peacekeeper and restorative practitioner with national and international religious, educational, and corporate institutions. She is an active member of the Ahimsa Collective, The Honeycomb Justice Hive, and started Collective Wisdoms. As part of that, she supports small-scale, restorative and relationship-orientated organizations in bringing heart-centered approaches to their accounting. She now lives by the River That Runs Both Ways, aka the Hudson Valley, NY.