About Mycelial Law
Meet the founder, Josie Watson Esq.
Meet the founder, Josie Watson Esq.
Meet the founder, Josie Watson Esq.
Josie was born and raised in the woods of traditional Quinnipiac territory - just outside Greenwich, Connecticut - spending more time with trees than humans, and eating way too much soil. Her family moved to Switzerland during her high school years, where she witnessed direct democratic processes at Town Meetings and their beautiful impac
Josie was born and raised in the woods of traditional Quinnipiac territory - just outside Greenwich, Connecticut - spending more time with trees than humans, and eating way too much soil. Her family moved to Switzerland during her high school years, where she witnessed direct democratic processes at Town Meetings and their beautiful impact on social cohesion and community vitality. Soils, forests and vital farm ecosystems taught her to be a passionate synergy-spotter, a network weaver, and a believer in law's capacity to build infrastructure of collective intelligence and generate abundance. She is working to apply legal methods to support and manifest the needs of various initiatives reharmonizing human and ecological lifeways. Josie passed the Bar Exam with a high enough score to be licensed in any state. She is licensed in Vermont.
Skills - Experience
Meet the founder, Josie Watson Esq.
Meet the founder, Josie Watson Esq.
- Scholar: Supported publications with the Stockholm Environment Institute (on Communitarian Commons Resource Governance), Global Development and Environment Institute (on policy to support regenerative agriculture), and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (on governing the soil-water quality nexus).
- Network Weaver: Founded a brain tru
- Scholar: Supported publications with the Stockholm Environment Institute (on Communitarian Commons Resource Governance), Global Development and Environment Institute (on policy to support regenerative agriculture), and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (on governing the soil-water quality nexus).
- Network Weaver: Founded a brain trust advocacy network for public sector investment in regenerative agriculture in the Northeast.
- Legal advocate: Paralegaled / authored a brief on the Rights of Manoomin case, a pathfinding Rights of Nature case led by the White Earth Band of the Ojibwe in Minnesota, with the Center for Democracy and Environmental Rights.
- Legal researcher for Regenerative Startup: Worked as Regen Network's only in-house legal mind, facilitating research to develop the contract set of their product; a cryptoeconomic payment system supporting regenerative farmers, financed by carbon markets....
TBC.
The longer backstory of a part-shroom attorney
Josies aspirations revolve around facilitating the emergence of resilient, regional economies, equitably governed by humans and our non-human kin. How did this come to be? Who has been involved in shaping this path? What do we all stand to accomplish together?
TBC....
Since I lost my sister to suicide in 2022, life has led me into deeper realms of thought and being. I completed an Herbalism Apprenticeship that entailed energetic herbalism, the practice of listening deeply to our plant kin. I am in deep listening mode to the earth system, Gaia, and will post my updates on this site about what emerges next...
Ways of Life that I Love
Food of place, culture of place, wisdom keepers who remember what land and human relationship wants to be in a place.
Recognizing the potential for collaboration between organizations or people who don't know each other.
The moment in the convening when the group experiences coherence; the coherence outlines an exciting, pragmatic plan.
Realizing a soul sister or soul brother also wants to join in the communal land project!!!
REIKI, YOGA, SINGING, TENDING TO PLANT BEINGS, WITCHCRAFT! ;)
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