Our Nature is Our Way Project brings visibility, connection, and investment to nature-based healing for and with survivors of gender-based violence. 

Jeanine works in community with the nonprofits, Healing to Action (https://www.healingtoaction.org/)  and Chicago Children's Advocacy Center (https://www.chicagocac.org/) to center the experiences of survivors and build a world free from gender-based violence. The below photo is from Jeanine's table at the Sex Ed Health Fair with Healing to Action encouraging people to explore their wild selves through poetry.

As a survivor of child sexual abuse raised in a religious setting, Jeanine knows the pain life-long impacts of a severed Self. She created Our Nature is Our Way in solidarity with the Me Too and survivor leadership movements, to bring visibility to evidence-based practices that return our bodies to our Selves and restore our relationship with Earth and Community. The photo below is from the Survivor Power Institute with Healing to Action.

Jeanine has an advanced training certificate in ecopsychology and a Bachelor's in Sociology and Spanish. She brings over a decade of experience connecting people with the economic and environmental benefits of clean and reduced energy use from her role at the nonprofit Elevate (www.elevatenp.org), as well as her lived experience as a queer person and survivor to Our Nature is Our Way.