Bridgette Bartlett

Bridgette's work is focused primarily on projects of sustainable agriculture and community gardening. As Education and Outreach Coordinator for Lots to Gardens, a primarily youth-focused urban gardening initiative in Lewiston, ME. She helps build a stronger local food system that increases access to healthy, home-grown food for Lewiston city residents.

She serves on the Clark Mountain Sanctuary Board of Directors as Treasurer and as Treasurer's Consultant for the JED Collective and Clark Mountain CLT. As co-founder and voting member of the JED Collective, Bridgette has participated extensively in the designing and maintenance of our gardens and orchards. In years past she has served as garden coordinator, working with MOFGA apprentices and being the liaison between JED and Lots to Gardens. She and her partner Paulinho are busy raising their first child, Luana. 

Paulinho Vitor De Sena

Paulinho is currently a resident of both Brazil and the U.S. He has been a long-time organizer and activist around issues of social and environmental justice. He co-founded the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) de São Caetano, (the Workers Party of Sao Caetano), and worked as a party organizer for 6 years.

Paulinho first came to JED in 2003 after taking part in a Maine Solidarity Delegation to Brazil. As an artist he has offered JED his building and artistic skills. He is learning English, with the goal of one day soon becoming an entrepreneur. Over the years he has been involved in the creation of the JED Collective organizational structure and is a voting member of JED as well as Clark Mountain CLT.

Daphne Loring

Daphne is currently coordinator for the Maine Fair Trade Campaign (MFTC). Her work has been focused primarily on MFTC's “Justice in the Wal-Mart Economy” which seeks to transform the negative impacts of Wal-Mart and the big box retail industry on communities, workers and the environment. In years past, she organized part-time with Brewer-based Food AND Medicine’s Union Supported Agriculture through their Solidarity Harvest programs.

She currently serves as Convener (President) on the Clark Mountain CLT Board of Directors and is a voting member of the JED Collective. Daphne's farming, gardening and animal husbandry skills are also a big asset to the community and farm.

Kate Boverman

Katie's work is essentially focused on issues of health accessibility and health justice. In 2003 she co-founded the Northeast Radical Healthcare Network in an effort to connect social justice issues with the alternative healthcare world. At JED, she maintains an extensive medicinal garden and keeps a stocked, on-site herbal apothecary and first aid station.

Katie is a musician and co-founder of a radical folk musicians collective called Riotfolk, which works to educate around issues of social, economic and ecological justice. She is also committed to activism around land and water protection, climate change, Permaculture and Gaia Theory.

For over two years, Katie has worked as the Community Financing Coordinator for both JED and Clark Mountain CLT projects. She currently serves as Treasurer on the CLT's Board of Directors and works as a liaison between JED and the CLT around finances and outreach. She is a voting and founding member of the JED Collective. In addition, she offers JED her skills in carpentry, blacksmithing and homesteading.

Mike Herrmann

Over the years, Mike has built a strong resume working with youth. He worked with “Earn-A-Bike”, a program that teaches children of all ages to teach one another to fix, recycle and safely use bicycles. He also worked at Camp K, a mainstream summer camp, where he was known as “Nature Mike”.

Mike currently works as a staff member of New Beginnings, an organization that cares for and houses homeless young adults in Lewiston. As a care-giver, he has been providing childcare for many years; at the moment, he has his hands full with two toddlers and one 6 month old baby.

Mike has lived and volunteered with both the Dine (Navajo) and the Zapatistas of Mexico. In years prior to coming to the JED Collective, he worked with a vegan farmer, seed-saver and community-living teacher in Farmington, ME. He describes this experience as having the greatest influence over his life thus far. While there, he learned skills of farming and community living that he now shares with JED.

For the last 6 years he has been involved in all aspects of running the JED farm and is the primary steward of the surrounding conservation land called Clark Mountain Sanctuary. He is also a voting and founding member of the JED Collective and Clark Mountain CLT.

Ethan Miller

As an organizer, Ethan works with the U.S. Solidarity Economy Network, Cooperative Development Institute, Grassroots Economic Organizing and The Data Commons Project, helping to encourage and develop solidarity-based economies in North America. He has written a number of articles on Solidarity Economics and works as an educator, teaching and presenting at numerous events and conferences throughout the region.

Ethan currently serves as the legal and economic consultant for Clark Mountain CLT's Board of Directors. This work includes the development of legal, organizational and financial structures between the organizations involved in the project as well as crafting conservation language for Clark Mountain Sanctuary's (CMS) Land and Water Stewardship Project. He is a co-founder and voting member of both the JED Collective and Clark Mountain CLT.

Ethan has planted more than 200 fruit and nut trees on the land, envisioning a community supported orchard in years to come. He is currently working toward his masters and PhD in social geography, with an emphasis in solidarity-based economies.

Matt Schlobolm

During the formative years of the Maine Fair Trade Campaign, Matt acted as its coordinator and created the Maine Citizen’s Trade Commission and a campaign to pressure Maine’s congressional delegation to vote against CAFTA.

Matt is currently working with Maine AFL-CIO as field organizer and political director, developing a campaign to secure passage for the Employee Free Choice Act (federal legislation), which would restore workers freedom to organize and collectively bargain for a better life.

As a long-term organizer, his skills include grassroots and popular education, coalition building, organizational development, fundraising, lobbying and networking. He is co-founder of the JED Collective as well as a voting and founding member of Clark Mountain CLT.

Alec Aman

Throughout his life, Alec has taken on leadership roles within the New England community of Quakers. As a member of the Quaker's Young Friends Program, he has worked to nurture the spiritual, religious, and social growth of high school-aged youth.

This work lead him into the world of social justice, where he began to work with organizations such as Maine Fair Trade Campaign (MFTC), People's Free Space in Portland, ME, No More Deaths/No Mas Muertes in Arizona, and Common Ground Relief Collective in New Orleans where he created the Meg Perry Community Garden and Bio-remediation Project. Most recently, Alec is coordinator of Engineers Without Borders: University of Maine Student Chapter and is a member of the Progressive Student Alliance.

Within the JED Collective, Alec provides skills of organizational development as well as homesteading, carpentry and coordination skills for the building of infrastructure on and around the farm. He is a voting member of both the JED Collective and Clark Mountain CLT.

Vanessa Herrmann

Vanessa is a native of Quebec and speaks fluent French, Portuguese and English. She contributed to the Anti-globalization Movement in the U.S., Quebec and abroad. Once a world traveler, she planted her roots with the JED Collective in 2002 and organized, coordinated and fundraised for the Maine Global Solidarity Delegation to Brazil. This trip made it possible for a group of low income social justice organizers from Maine to connect with Brazilian social movements.

Vanessa's work has revolved around prenatal care and birth, building upon the thesis work she did in Brazil. The home birth of her son is featured in an international documentary film entitled, “The First Cry” (Le Premier Cri).

Vanessa currently works as the event coordinator at the Toy Library, an affordable indoor playground in Lewiston. She is a co-founder and voting member of the JED Collective and Clark Mountain CLT and currently serves as Treasurer for the JED Collective.