Pandora Thomas

Week of August 1, 2026

“The Earth is Her Employer”
Pandora Thomas is a passionate global citizen: a caregiver, teacher, farmer, designer, and speaker. Her work emphasizes the benefits of applying ecological principles to social design and reconnecting humans to our more-than-human kin.

For the last 15 years her earth service has included being a carepartner for her mother(now an ancestor) who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s; co-founding the Black Permaculture Network; working with Toyota to design and serve as a coalition member of the Toyota Green Initiative, which supported African Americans in understanding the benefits of adopting sustainable lifestyles; co-designing, teaching with and directing Pathways to Resilience-a permaculture and social entrepreneur training program that worked with men and women returning home after incarceration; and working with the Urban Permaculture Institute in Marin City supporting a People’s Planning Process that helps community members assess and design strategies for their own resilience. Her lifelong commitment to honoring the ancestral legacies of earth stewardship among peoples of African Ancestry culminated in her most recent gift to the planet: founding the Earthseed Farm, the first Afro-Indigenous permaculture center in Sonoma County. Earthseed’s farming and center programming elevate the earth stewardship contributions and legacy of people of African ancestry throughout the Diaspora.