Our Team
As PermaQueer expands grows in its work and it’s capacity, we’re excited to hopefully welcome some new voices to our team soon.
Guy Ritani (they/them/Ia)
Toad Dell (they/them/it)
Guy (Ia/they/them) is a proud Takatāpui Māori Food systems specialist, systems designer, & Permaculture teacher based on Kombumerri Country. Their work is centred around building relationships, networks & systems to achieve climate justice, bio-regional food security & culturally appropriate & sovereign food systems. Guy has been engaged in innovating regenerative practices both ecologically & socially across the Asia-pacific region. They are currently delivering the VicHealth Future Healthy Foodhubs program as the food systems specialist and educate in food sovereignty & systems design across Australasia for the past 5 years. Having grown up spending time on the family farm & in the local fisheries Guy is deeply passionate about food system wellbeing & seeing the equitable change needed for a well nourished world.
Toad is an Irish/English settler living on unceded land of the Kombumerri People. Co-founder of PermaQueer, board member of Permaculture Australia, Small Giants MBE Alumni and community organiser. They are deeply committed and passionate about using permaculture education to help break up the hegemony and reliance upon cultural systems of violence and use queer theory, trauma informed design and ecological systems thinking in pursuit of this goal. Their work exists in the intersection of community, economy and ecological health, and justice working on projects that restore health and resilience to all components, not one at the sake of the others.
