Becoming a person of place is Cassandra’s orienting cosmology, and her activist real estate career is informed by this path. She became a real estate agent in 2003 as a single mom needing to support her family, and was compelled to understand how market capitalism prevents so many people from a direct and secure relationship with Earth. She committed early on to learning how to support cooperative living and to find ways to decommodify and deprivatize Land. As someone with mixed European settler ancestry, Cassandra is keenly aware of the paradox of how those with white colonial privilege have often been displaced from land-based culture. Cassandra listened her way forward, guided by the generosity of spirit, mentors, and friends who would help her co-found The Center for Ethical Land Transition. Through the work of ethical land transitions, Cassandra works to transform conventional real estate practice in service to Land, cultural reunion, and reparative justice.
Center for Ethical Land Transition The Center for Ethical Land Transition is co-created by an incredible team Neha Sharma, Jason Patten and Abi Huff who together create programmatic and educational support for native, black and cultural communities reuniting with Land, title holders who are braving the path of relinquishment, and real estate professionals who are arcing their practice toward justice. The Center for Ethical Land Transition partners with organizations within the emerging field of Land Justice and provides strategic support for the multi-generational project of transforming our relationship with Land in service to healing the effects of colonization. Our work is committed to the permanent decommodification of Land, and to supporting worldviews, behaviors and legal practices that regard Land as Sacred, Sentient and Sovereign.
