THE REGIONICITY FELLOWSHIP
Different perspectives.
One shared question:
How can we make land regeneration and regional resilience understandable, desirable, and actionable within our communities?
Why the Fellowship?
Regional development touches agriculture, science, business, workforce, food, culture, wellness, infrastructure, and the natural systems that sustain them.
The Regionicity Fellowship is the interdisciplinary learning and interpretation layer across Regionicity’s work. Fellows bring different perspectives to research, real-world examples, stakeholder insights, and regional opportunities, challenging assumptions, identifying connections, and helping Regionicity determine what ideas can be thoughtfully adapted from one place to another.
The Fellowship does not replace local expertise. It helps Regionicity ask better questions, interpret what we learn, and design better regional solutions.
How the Fellowship Works
Learn — Examine research, technologies, programs, communities, and real-world examples.
Interpret — Consider what those examples mean through different professional and regional perspectives.
Challenge — Question assumptions, identify gaps, and surface connections that may be missed within a single discipline.
Adapt — Help Regionicity determine what lessons may be appropriate to test or design for another region.
About The Shared Question:
How can we make land regeneration and regional resilience understandable, desirable, and actionable within our communities?
Different Fellows will approach that question from different perspectives. The goal is not consensus. It is to surface useful connections, challenge assumptions, and improve the quality of the ideas explored through the Regionicity Report.
Perspectives at the Table
The Fellowship considers land regeneration and regional resilience through five connected parts of regional life. Fellows are not assigned to individual pillars. They are invited to bring their own experience, curiosity, and perspective to the connections between them.
Place
Climate, terrain, soil, biodiversity, and the natural systems that shape how a region looks, works, and lives.
Working Lands
Agriculture, stewardship, conservation, and circularity—the productive landscapes where people work with natural systems to grow, make, and sustain regional value.
Working People
Training, skills, careers, and entrepreneurship—the knowledge, creativity, work, and opportunity that allow people to build meaningful livelihoods within a region.
Community
Food, culture, wellness, and belonging—the experiences, relationships, traditions, and everyday pleasures that connect people to one another and to where they live.
Infrastructure
Housing, transportation, utilities, and institutions—the systems and shared capacity that allow people, businesses, communities, and regional economies to function and thrive.
The most interesting stories often happen where these perspectives meet.
Who Becomes a Fellow?
Regionicity Fellows are practitioners with real-world experience, curiosity, and a distinctive perspective on the connections between people, place, working lands, and regional resilience.
They may come from science, agriculture, workforce, wellness, food, culture, business, conservation, design, media, hospitality, education, or other fields that shape how people live.
Fellows are selected not only for what they know, but for the perspective they bring, the questions they ask, and their ability to help others see familiar things in new ways.
Meet the Fellows
Regionicity Fellows are proven practitioners who bring different professional experiences, regional perspectives, and areas of expertise to the conversation.
Each Fellow has a demonstrated record of designing, managing, implementing, or advancing real-world programs, organizations, innovations, or regional initiatives.
They contribute their own lens while exploring how place, working lands, workforce, community, and infrastructure intersect within regional economies.
Fellows and Bio Page to Be Announced Soon
What Participation Looks Like
The Fellowship is designed to be meaningful without becoming another standing committee.
Fellows participate based on their interests, availability, and perspective. Participation may include conversations, field visits, interviews, introductions, observations, occasional writing, or helping identify people, places, products, and experiences worth exploring.
There is no expectation that every Fellow participate in every story or conversation. The goal is thoughtful contribution, curiosity, and the freedom to follow interesting connections when they emerge.