Kellie Berns
Kellie Berns - National Programs Director
Kellie is a student, mentor, spiritual practitioner, lover of the earth, and community organizer who has a passion for being of service to help foster spaces of peace, justice, empowerment, healing, and beauty.
Her inspiration comes from many years of Buddhist and Yogic practices, along with time spent learning from Indigenous relatives of North America.
Kellie is one of the co-visionary behind Earth Guardians’ Indigenous Youth Leadership Initiative, as well Earth Guardians’ project grant program, and is currently managing EG’s divestment campaigns and partnerships, fossil fuel resistance campaigns/partnerships, PPE and Tribal Nations initiative, Youth leadership trainings, and EG’s hemp educational series.
In the past, Kellie was the co-manager/co-founder of the Ahimsa House in West Philadelphia, a community center founded on Buddhist principles which merges activism and spirituality, operating outside of the violence of capitalism by offering all classes free of charge. Kellie is a graduate of Smith College, a graduate, former faculty at the Pacific Center of Awareness and Bodywork in Kauai, and co-founder of the Studio 34 Yoga Teacher Training Program. Kellie is currently working with members of the USHBA, United States Hemp Building Association, to help scale education and implantation of hemp-crete as a building material and carbon drawdown mechanism.
Utilizing 10 years of campaign and community organizing, alongside many years of meditation, a private healing arts practice, and farming, Kellie strives to create a world where people once again live in balance and harmony with each other and the land.