Board of Directors

Dan Sheridan was born and raised in the mid Hudson valley in a large family in a small town. From a young age his facinanition of wild foraged foods, plant medicine and ecology inspired him to follow a career in environmental science and forestry. In the start of his second year at SUNY Cobleskill Dan was in an accident requiring extensive reconstructive spinal surgery. During the three years of recovery he spent his time reading and researching methods of self suffiency, primitive survival, and native plant identification. Once able to start walking and driving again he began his life as a volunteer working with solar cities biogas innovators and praxtioners learning new applications of ancient methods for more sustainable waste management, volunteering at Chapel of Sacred Mirrors as their herbalist, gardener, and running a tea lounge at monthly events. After 3 years of local volunteering and regular physical therapy Dan choose to start traveling the county working with small communities and non profit organization creating permaculture plans, teaching classes on gas digester, and sharing his hand crafted teas. At the end of 2019 Dan Sheridan joined the team of the Amenia Regenerative Center first as our Sustainability Director and then joined the board as president of the organization.

Dan Sheridan
President

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Seth Henry
Vice-Presidemt

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I am Seth H. Henry, i am, a lifelong political peace and environmental activist. I work under the name of Green Man Landscapes, which is a Native, Habitat and Edible gardens landscape company. That work is not only my business but also my passion. The ARC gives me a chance to work to pass that along to others.
Nelson Zayas was born and raised in NYC and currently resides in Pine Plains, New York, where he is an elementary school teacher. He first learned how to weave in 2000 while attending a survival course in Arizona. In 2014, Nelson began to research his Taino heritage. His research along with his love for weaving produced custom orders and a love for Taino art. In addition, he is co-owner of Sacred Ways with his wife, Lisa Zayas and sole proprietor of Nelson Zayas Tax Services. Nelson also enjoys gardening, bird-watching, astronomy, robotics, and biking.

Nelson Zayas
Treasurer

Nelson Zayas

Henry Kramer
Secretary

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Henry Kramer is an environmental philosopher, writer, songweaver, and religious studies scholar with deep roots in the living land of the Hudson Valley. Henry teaches classes at CUNY Hunter including Ecospirituality, Mysticism, and Tribal Religions, has defended papers at conferences (arguing such crazy things as that nature has something to say to us), and has led workshops on cultivating wonder at Harvard Divinity School as well as through the public philosophy nonprofit Merlin CCC and locally near his home in Beacon. Henry runs Enchanted Ecology, a group that gathers every week to discuss how we might deepen our relationship with the more-than-human (as well as the Instagram @enchanted.ecology). He is passionate about cultivating a more spiritually sustainable way of being and living on Earth in a time when so much - ecologically, socioculturally, and psychologically - is approaching boil-over. This passion has led to a fortuitous crossing of paths with Amenia Regenerative Center in 2022. Synchronistically, Henry also facilitated the Joseph Campbell Mythological Roundtable for a short time in 2013 at the Center for Symbolic Studies at Stone Mountain Farm, where Amenia Regenerative has recently relocated.