Future of Rural
Kristine Hill
Meet Your Facilitator
Kristine Hill
Kristine Hill is a member of the Beaver Clan of the Tuscarora Nation, Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Her work brings together restorative practice with Indigenous peacekeeping, creating learning experiences grounded in relationship, reciprocity, and lived experience.
For more than twenty years, Kristine has worked in education, administration, financial management, and restorative justice, working and living off her own peoples’ lands. She has been contributing to the wider space as an Indigenous peacemaker, restorative practitioner, team elder, financial manager, program developer, and all-around wise auntie to many different people. She is the founder of Strawberry Wisdom, a nonprofit dedicated to heart-centered healing.
Kristine believes meaningful change begins with the way we relate to one another. Her teaching invites people to pause, listen deeply, and discover what becomes possible when fairness and relationship remain at the center of our work.
She lives in New York’s Hudson Valley on the historical eastern door of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, in the homelands of the Mohican/Mahican people. She is also a mother, grandmother, and lifelong learner who values rest, family, and community.
Our Relationship
Rē and Kristine first connected through Sequoia Samanvaya. Since then, our relationship has continued to grow through shared learning and a commitment to exploring what education can become.
Over the years, we’ve created retreats and learning experiences together while deepening our understanding of restorative practice. Kristine has also helped shape the Future of Rural learning community as an educator, advisor, and thought partner.
We’re grateful to continue learning alongside her.
About Collective Wisdom
Collective Wisdom and Rē connected in the fall of 2023 through Sequoiya Samanvaya. Together we have tended embers so that bigger flames could be built with the fodder of our collective works.
Some of these works include: collaborative community retreat spaces; co-creating the container for a course filled with content from Collective Wisdom’s reimagining; staff at Rē circling around finance, retreats, Inner & Outer Landscape guidance, and Restorative Justice advising — our partnership has spanned 3 years!
Starting from the Individual and expanding to the Collective is the deep work brought into collaborations with other aligned organizations. Following information to knowledge to wisdom is a way that we can all engage, through Restorative Practices and Indigenous Peacekeeping, Storytelling, and listening to the land.
Website: www.collectivewisdoms.org
We Believe in Open Access Education
In the spirit of regenerative economic reciprocity, Rē is offering Fall 2026 Pilot Cohort spots at no charge. Your participation, engagement, and feedback offers our organization an opportunity to learn about the student experience, to continue developing program supports, and to further imagine what Future of Rural can become.
(Of course, as Rē is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, donations of any amount in support of this work are always welcome, appreciated, and thoughtfully stewarded.)