Environmental health advocate Mackenzie Feldman reveals how grassroots action and land stewardship can reshape our relationship with the earth, from the grounds of college campuses to the food systems that sustain us all.
This time on The Four Sacred Gifts, Anita and Mackenzie explore:
- Pesticide testing in Hawaii: ground zero for industrial agriculture
- Learning about our food systems and grassroots movements against GMOs
- Mackenzie’s work transforming college campuses to not use pesticides
- The fight against Monsanto and cancer-causing chemicals
- The direct connection between land care and the food we consume
- Taking a stand and challenging the dominance of humans over nature
- Transforming our relationship to the land we live on
- Following our purpose in life and the natural unfolding of our divine path
- Connecting our personal life and our professional life
- Taking inspiration from indigenous cultures even if we ourselves are not indigenous
“It’s all connected and now my work is focused on school campuses and getting pesticides out, but it’s also about so much more than that. It’s really about taking a stand on how we want to interact with the land, how we want to be in relationship with land, how we want to challenge this dominance of humans over nature.” –Mackenzie Feldman
About Mackenzie Feldman:
Born and raised in Hawai’i, Mackenzie Feldman is the founder and co-director of Re:wild Your Campus, an organization that works with institutions to eliminate pesticide use and support groundskeepers in the transition to organic, biodiverse landcare. Re:wild Your Campus has partnered with 100+ schools and trained 800+ students and community members through its Advocacy Bootcamp. They have helped improve thousands of acres of campus landscapes, protecting over half a million students annually from toxic pesticide exposure. Mackenzie is a 2026 Forbes 30 U 30 honoree and a 2025 Obama Foundation USA Leader. She holds a MS from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and is the author of the cookbook, Groundbakers. Contact Mackenzie at www.rewild.org.
“For me, growing up in Hawaii and being exposed to Hawaiians that were really caring for the earth and putting their whole lives into this fight to protect the land was so inspiring to me and made me realize we don’t have to separate our work from our personal life. Having our life purpose also be our personal life, from an indigenous perspective, it’s one in the same, it’s part of who you are.” –Mackenzie Feldman
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