Kendra is a climate-focused experiential educator and communications strategist. A multi-founder and longtime alternative education enthusiast, she is building out the communications, marketing, and IT structures for Headwaters Community Farm and Academy. Kendra brings well over a decade of experience leading creative teams, producing events, building communications strategies to scale, and helping organizations root and rise on a shifting planet.

A fierce advocate of climate mitigation, Kendra co-founded environmental nonprofit DeCarbon DeKalb, where DeKalb County locals advocate for climate adaptation on a hyper local level. She produces engagement and education events in the region, including the annual Earth Day celebration Earth Fest. She also contributed to the clean energy transition as Campaign and Events Manager at Voltus, a climate tech company providing economically beneficial curtailment strategies to industrial and commercial organizations in North America.

A teacher at heart and by trade, Kendra is former faculty at Northern Illinois University where she was Head of Movement Training for the School of Theatre and Dance. She built curriculum for more than 40 courses, and has logged thousands of hours in the classroom. She also served as Associate Director of the Gately/Poole Conservatory where she grew engagement and programming by 400% over a seven-year term training early and midcareer performers from all over the world. She regularly directs university-level theatre, most recently She Kills Monsters, The Wolves, The Revolutionists, Blue Stockings, and Good Person of Setzuan. She trained at Moscow Art Theatre and Shakespeare and Company, and mentored under multiple master teachers in several performance disciplines. Kendra specializes in Williamson Physical Training Technique, a somatic movement methodology deeply grounded in connection to nature that examines how humans move contact with the world into experience in the body and then out into behavior. She’s an intimacy designer for stage and film and co-founder of Actors Movement Camp, a nature-based retreat series for performance artists based in Western Michigan. 

Raised on Florida swampland by way of NYC, she now lives in Dekalb with her son, twin orange tabby cats, and a tiny urban farm. Interests include nonfiction, permaculture, home electrification, community living, the slowest embroidery you’ve ever seen, and holding out hope for a climate future in which we get it right.