There are massive land transitions that are now at play. How does our language, our role, and our understanding of relationships need to change to reflect the shifting values in a world trying to get beyond the commodification of land? Join real estate agent, Cassandra Ferrera, in an exploration of an alternative to current real estate conventions that put the land, stewardship, justice and liberation at the center of land transitions vs. the bottom line. Cassandra and her colleagues are creating a new organization to serve ethical land transitions that are able to interface with the modern real estate industry.
Land Bridge: Rethinking Land Ownership, Land Transactions, and Land Relationships
Webcast Video
Guests
Cassandra Ferrera
CommonSpace Community Land Trust
Cassandra’s dynamic real estate career and community activism has focused on the edge of cultural innovation where cooperation meets land stewardship. She has provided agency, complex contract design, consulting and cooperative governance support to dozens of mission driven communities and land projects. A licensed real estate agent in California since 2003, Cassandra works with the progressive Green Key Real Estate brokerage in the San Francisco Bay Area. As a founding board member of CommonSpace Community Land Trust and a multiple term board member of the Foundation for Intentional Community, Cassandra serves as organizational steward and movement strategist. Along with her collaborators, Cassandra is birthing Land Bridge, a non-profit organization dedicated to ethical land transitions rooted in land liberation, relationship repair, social justice, and cooperation. Cassandra has personally lived in land based community projects since 2006 and is prayerfully dedicated to the sacred relationship between humans and earth.