Jane "Purslane" Congleton

Jane "Purslane" Congleton is from Brattleboro and has been working with pre-K and elementary-age kiddos for three years. Growing up accessing outdoor creative play, expedition & farming education, Purslane has developed a commitment to mutual aid care work in solidarity with global indigenous led movements against colonization, fascism and neoliberalism.

They work at Wild Strawberry Forest School and substitute at a number of local schools. She can be found doing deliveries to neighbors, singing with friends, tending intergenerational "third spaces" such as 69A Brattleboro, organizing concert fundraisers, and co-facilitating multimedia political education spaces with the Maroon School and Resource Generation respectively.

Purslane has studied outdoor leadership with Kroka Expeditions, and holds a BA in Organizational Leadership & Change from College Unbound (RI), where they concentrated on histories of colonization and prison abolition. Over the next year, they intend to study massage therapy, possibly return to Navajo land in Black Mesa, Arizona to volunteer with shepherds and landworkers. Eventually they dream to pursue a graduate program intersecting disability & carceral studies.