Olivia Q. Pintair attended Touching the Earth as a participant in 2021 and an assistant in 2023. She is so excited to be returning again this summer! Originally from Vermont, Olivia studied environmental religion and education in school and has spent time as part of community at Bread and Butter Farm, Kroka Expeditions, and Arco Iris Mother Nature Center in New Mexico. At retreat, she loves sitting, playing music, dancing around the kitchen while cooking, and getting to know the remarkable people who make their way to the homestead each year. When not at retreat, she cares for kids and works as a journalist and writer. In writing and in general, she is curious about how crisis and change inhabit, feed, break, or transform human bodies and relationships, inspired by Octavia E. Butler’s understanding of God as Change and Homi Bhabha’s definition of “emergency [as] a state of emergence.”
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