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MOVEMENT INFRASTRUCTURE
FOR A  REGENERATIVE FUTURE 

Earth Convergence is a collective of educators, practitioners, and grassroots organizers advancing environmental justice, mutual reciprocity, and healing through culturally rooted and scientific education. 

We are 100% community-made with love in New York City

We've reached new heights together, redefining success in the industry. Let's celebrate our shared journey of growth, innovation, and impact.

4,880+

participants provided with skills in organizing, land stewardship, and civic engagement,  and developed new relationships that strengthen local and global movements and their impact.

$400k

moved directly to historically marginalised communities because we know communities proximate to the issues have the solutions

76

trainings led by local, regional, and global grassroots change-makers because we know that with increased knowledge comes increased community power. 

42

BIPOC and LGBTQ+ community organizers to cultivate cultural shift, build movement infrastructure, and strengthen collective climate resilience.  

9

hyperlocal grassroots partners who receive valuable fiscal, mentorship, technical training, and grant resources on a year-round basis. 

We're actively strengthening youth leadership and community infrastructure

Through projects that center healing, land stewardship, urban agriculture, mutual aid, green workforce pathways, and civic engagement. By investing in youth and community-led solutions, we're building physical, emotional, and cultural resilience across communities while equipping the next generation to shape a just and sustainable world. 

OUR IMPACT REPRESENTS REAL SHIFTS FRONTLINE COMMUNITIES 

From building compost systems and testing soil health to exploring the role of art in climate action, our programs provide tangible pathways to healing, leadership, and employment.

5,000 sq ft + 6.28 acres 
of green space

are being transformed into sites of community education, urban agriculture, and civic engagement

Two young women holding radishes grown in a community garden.
A crowd of people sitting in a park listening to a speaker at an Earth Month Convergence event.

6,200+
students engaged 

in climate education across 24 schools in NY, TX, and beyond

65+ hours
of curriculum 

integrating environmental and food justice, social emotional learning training, and green workforce development. 

135+
BIPOC bronx YOUTH

received 15,000 agricultural and land stewardship technical skill training hours and paid internships

Earth Convergence founder Kier Blake working at a classroom desk with an educator and two teenage students.

FROM LOCAL ROOTS TO REGIONAL POWER:
HOW OUR MODEL EVOLVED

People dancing around a maypole at an Earth Month Convergence event

in 2023, La Plaza Cultural de Armando Perez (Manhattan) — a historic 30,000 sq. ft. community garden — hosted the Convergence, demonstrating community gardens as vital ecological and healing infrastructure.

A crowd of people with their eyes closed and arms outstretched, following an instructor's directions.

In 2025, at Socrates Sculpture Park—a 6.28-acre waterfront space, once an abandoned landfill and now a vibrant community hub for art, ecology, and public gatherings—we honored

the power of transformation, connecting art, ecology, and climate resilience through collective learning and creativity. 

A screen printing template reading "Educate to Liberate, Earth Month Convergence"

In 2022, the EMC began as a two-day series of teach-ins led by 11 environmental, cultural, and labor justice advocates sharing actionable frameworks for systems change. 

A small crowd listening to a man behind a stall speaking at an Earth Month Convergence event.

In 2024, we held a more intentional gathering at The Connected Chef’s community food distribution center and urban garden in Long Island City, Queens centering deeper relationship-building, and mutual reciprocity.

A crowd of people in a park at an Earth Month Convergence event.

In 2026, we will reconvene at Socrates Sculpture Park, deepening youth leadership, community involvement, and local-global movement infrastructure. 

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