Everywhere panel: Essentials for Positive Sum Thinking: Trust, Relationships & Collaboration

Rural Assembly Everywhere will feature a panel discussion “Essentials for Positive Sum Thinking: Trust, Relationship, and Collaboration,” during the Sept. 17 virtual event.

Hear from a group of leaders based in rural Southwest Washington State and learn how respect, friendship, and constant collaboration can build abundance and community. We are pleased to welcome Tiffany Oakes Turner (CEO of Adrift Hospitality), Jessika Tantisook (Economic Recovery Corps Fellow), Josh Phillips (small business owner and Executive Director of Washington’s Evergreen Coast) and Madeline Matson (Rural Assembly Director) as they discuss how they’ve been impacted by scarcity mindsets and what strategies they use to work past it.

Everywhere 2025 will celebrate the theme, “A Bigger Pie: Cultivating Abundance in a Time of Scarcity.” this year’s gathering will feature a keynote conversation with author Natalie Baszile, a live Q&A with journalist Ray Suarez, a reading from Birmingham, Ala., poet laureate Salaam Green, a performance from Latingrass musicians Larry & Joe, and more.

About Rural Assembly Everywhere 

Rural Assembly Everywhere is the annual virtual gathering of the Rural Assembly, a program of the Center for Rural Strategies. The virtual broadcast features speakers, conversations, music, and other elements of rural culture. Now in its fifth year as a virtual gathering, Rural Assembly Everywhere brings together people from across the country who care deeply about their rural places, neighbors, and community issues. 

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