North American Leadership Summit Report

PINA’s Leadership Summit Report PINA’s first North American Leadership Summit (NALS), concluding August 23rd, was a roaring success. It brought participants up to date on major projects, added new members to the organization, and connected activists from across the...

Kitzia Kokopelmana

Kitzia Kokopelmana PINA Board Member since 2020 Buena Fortuna Botanical Garden La Ribera, East Cape, by the Gulf of California, Baja California Sur (BCS), México Kitzia Kokopelmana is a seeds-woman, gardener, landscaper, writer and painter in La Ribera, Mexico.  In...

Melanie Mindlin

Melanie MindlinPINA Administrator 2012-2020PINA Diploma Program Coordinator Oregon Melanie Mindlin is a permculture teacher and designer in Southern Oregon, where she is a partner in Siskiyou Permaculture.  Melanie has worked with permaculture design, home design,...

Elizabeth Lynch

Elizabeth LynchPINA Administrator, since January 2020Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Elizabeth is PINA’s Administrator who works with logistics and organizing efforts behind-the-scenes.​She lives in the rolling hills of Southwestern Pennsylvania, where sheteaches...

Peter Bane

Peter Bane PINA Executive Director Michigan Peter Bane has served PINA as a Director, Board Secretary, President, Chair of the Diploma Program Committee, Application Reviewer, and Field Advisor. In October 2018, he stepped off the board to take a part-time staff...

Andrew Millison

Andrew MillisonPINA Board MemberCorvallis, Oregon Andrew Millison has been studying, teaching and practicing Permaculture since he took his first design course in 1996. He started teaching Permaculture at the college level in 2001, and has been an instructor at OSU in...

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