Email: csilverberg@feedwma.org
Cara (she/her) approaches food systems work as healing work between people and land. She comes to Rachel’s Table with two decades of experience in secular, interfaith, and Jewish land-based education and non-profit management, and as a learner and leader in the North American Jewish environmental movement. For her work in Western Mass, Cara received a Harold Grinspoon Award for Excellence in Jewish Education. At RTWM, she stewards program development, impact evaluation, and regional and national network engagement towards alignment with community needs and local agricultural vibrance. Cara finds power and wisdom in her cultural heritages (Jewish and Sicilian/Southern Italian) and approaches program development with awareness of the role that culture, colonization, migration, and diaspora play in people’s relationships with land, food, and nourishment. Outside of RTWM, Cara enjoys writing, practicing trapeze, and engaging in ecological herbalism and native land restoration on the land she stewards with her partner in Southern VT.