Calla Rose Ostrander works to support a shift in our relationships to food, land and each other. She serves part-time as the Climate Coordinator for Natural and Working Lands for the State of California Natural Resources Agency and runs her own small business Phoenix Rising Resources, LLC. A Waldorf graduated and trained political economist, one of her life goals is to create a new economy for organic materials and the people and landscapes that they nurture.

She plays the cello and her weekly public radio program Rain & Shine can be heard on KVNF.org.