Cait Gentle

Program Coordinator

Cait (they/them) is grateful to be welcomed into ecological restoration with Rivershed.

With over 12 years of experience organizing access to land and community care, Cait has been working towards building a deeper relationship with natural system restoration into their care praxis, through body-based practises, ancestral re-connection and gentle encounters with land and water systems. Their passion for seed saving, ecological-arts, food preservation and growing participatory cultures is largely informed by their maternal Doukhobor Russian ancestry.

Outside of work, Cait can be found tending Hives for Humanity as Co-Director focusing on Community Care & Growing Governance, administering healing gardens and holding ground on the 100 block of East Hastings St. It is through these relationships that they have learned the most about resilience over the years. Cait holds up fireweed as central in their dreams of futures beyond settler colonialism. May we continue to build the soil for new worlds to emerge.

Cait graduated from Simon Fraser University with a BA Geography and is based on the ancestral and occupied lands of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) First Nations.