Abrah Dresdale, M.A., (she/her) is a cultural artist, visionary educator, and consultant in the fields of regenerative social design, prison food justice, and Jewish earth-based traditions. Abrah is on Faculty in the Sustainable Food and Farming program at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and at Omega Institute’s Center for Sustainable Living.
In founding both the nationally acclaimed Farm and Food Systems degree program at Greenfield Community College and the Franklin County Jail-to-Farm-to-College & Employment program, Abrah leads with her ability to envision systems change on the ground and enact it. As a core organizer of the Northeast Prison Food Justice movement, she has curated conference tracks on the subject at Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA), Farm-to-Institution New England (FINE), and the Northeast Prison Garden Collaborative.
She served a David Bird Ecological Design Fellow to India and an Africa Conflict Transformation Fellow to Rwanda. As a cultural artist dedicated to justice and healing, she is well versed in anti-oppression work, systemic constellations, rite of passage ritual design, and Jewish eco-social traditions. She teaches peer-to-peer counseling focused on eliminating racism. She is founder/director of Regenerate Change and author of Regenerative Design for Change Makers: A Social Permaculture Guidebook.
Abrah is a spoken word poet who believes in the power of words to shape and call forth a liberated future into being. She lives with her beloved husband on a Jewish multi-family farm engaged in land-based reparations work in the Mahicantuck / Hudson Valley of New York.
