About Us
We defend and restore right relationship and reciprocity, for a flourishing world today and for generations to come.
Our Vision: A future in which people and the living world flourish in reciprocal relationship, not because policy or law mandates it, but because we recognize kinship with our non-human relatives, and right relationship is woven into how societies live, govern, and sustain themselves.
Our Mission: We work with communities to defend, restore, and rebuild right relationship and reciprocity with each other and our non-human relatives. We defend what endures, restore what has frayed, and rebuild what has been severed.
What we believe
Ecological health and human well-being are the same project. When we live in right relationship with, and are accountable to, our non-human relatives, both flourish. When that relationship breaks, both suffer. This is not a new idea. It is what Indigenous Peoples have learned and practiced for millennia.
We are already kin. Some ties held, some frayed, some severed. The work ahead must go beyond protection, into defending and repairing the relationship itself.
Our Why. Relational ways of knowing and being.
Ancestral knowledge has sustained lands and waters for millennia, not because they were left untouched, but because the communities stewarding them hold a different positionality: relatives, not protectors. This positionality, rooted in right relationship, carries a lesson passed down through generations: when we act in responsibility to our human and non-human kin, abundance and well-being follow. That is why places governed through relational ways of knowing and being hold a disproportionate share of the healthiest ecosystems on Earth, and why KinshipNow roots its stewardship, livelihood, and learning work in relationship. When we remember our kinship with the world around us, we can heal and flourish together.
Who we are
An ecologist by training and a systems thinker by practice, Bray has spent more than two decades designing conservation initiatives across North America and the Global South.
Daisy is an expert in Indigenous Knowledge and environmental stewardship, with deep roots in Eastern Cherokee traditions and communities.
Daniel brings expertise in regenerative logic and circularity frameworks, with a particular focus on translating these concepts for non-Indigenous communities.
Steering Committee
We are advised by a steering committee whose members each hold their own relationship to the living world, shaped by different lands and waters, lineages, and practices, and united by a shared positionality as relatives.
Partners
