Thomas Spaulding is inspired by farms and associations that serve as dynamic places for social, cultural, ecological, and economic renewal that heal our bodies, communities, and Earth.
Since 2018, Thomas works as a consultant, independent contractor, and organizer (HolyCowAdvisors@gmail.com), and since 2019, he is a trainer and organizer with the Racial Equity Institute, a national firm based in Greensboro, NC.
Since 2022, Thomas co-represents First United Church of Tampa (Florida) in the Hillsborough Organization for Progress and Equality (HOPE), a 27-member cross-faith and -race congregational coalition focused on affordable housing, criminal justice reform, and environmental justice.
Since 2013, Thomas serves as the founding president of Angelic Organics Association, an Illinois nonprofit community land trust that protects land in perpetuity for organic-biodynamic agriculture, farming education, and land conservation.
Thomas grew up in an extended family of reformers and organizers in North Carolina and California during the civil rights, anti-war, and environmental movements of the 1960-70s. He was a student organizer while seeking BA and MA degrees at the University of California and George Washington University, and then in the 1980s-90s worked on anti-poverty and environmental initiatives with international organizations, including the United Nations and YMCA International. For two decades (1998-2018), Thomas served as the founding executive director of Angelic Organics Learning Center, created to organize urban and rural people across race, class and gender in order to build local sustainable food and farm systems based on four interdependent foundations – equity, economy, ecology, and expression.
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