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SUMMARY:Meeting the Moment: Solidarity and Partnerships with Indigenous Peoples in the California CLT Movement
DESCRIPTION:This event was part of the 2026 Global Community Land Trust (CLT) Virtual Summit. Explore the full program here.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGrabación\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRecursos\n\n\n\n\nTranscripción\n\n\n\n\nESPAÑOL \n\n\n\nLa California Community Land Trust Network organizó una sesión centrada en el intercambio de experiencias sobre cómo los CLTs están construyendo relaciones de solidaridad con comunidades indígenas en California. \n\n\n\nEsta sesión presentó iniciativas lideradas y co-lideradas por comunidades indígenas que utilizan los community land trusts (CLT) para impulsar procesos de Land Back\, rematriación (devolución de tierras ancestrales a las comunidades indígenas)\, reparaciones\, soberanía alimentaria y revitalización cultural. A través de relatos y estudios de caso\, las personas ponentes compartieron cómo estos esfuerzos se desarrollan mediante alianzas\, construcción de coaliciones y formas de gobernanza comunitaria\, así como los desafíos y oportunidades que enfrentan en el contexto político actual. \n\n\n\nLa conversación también abordó aprendizajes sobre cómo construir relaciones significativas con comunidades tribales y explorará el papel que los CLTs pueden desempeñar en el fortalecimiento del liderazgo y la autodeterminación indígena. \n\n\n\n\n\nRecording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nResources\n\n\n\n\nSlides\n\n\n\nTranscript\n\n\n\n\nENGLISH \n\n\n\nThe California Community Land Trust Network hosted a storytelling session exploring how CLTs are engaging in solidarity with Indigenous communities across California. \n\n\n\nThis session featured Indigenous-led and co-led initiatives using community land trusts to advance Land Back\, rematriation\, reparations\, food sovereignty\, and cultural revitalization. Through case-based storytelling\, speakers shared how these efforts are being shaped through partnerships\, coalition-building\, and community-led governance\, as well as the challenges and opportunities they are navigating in the current political context. \n\n\n\nThe discussion also highlighted lessons on building meaningful relationships with tribal communities and explored how CLTs can support Indigenous leadership and self-determination. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDarlene Franco\, Wukchumni Community Land Trust\, Tribal Chairperson & Chief Executive Officer of Wukchumni Tribe\n\n\n\nDARLENE FRANCO has worked all her life in Native communities\, including directing statewide Native language revitalization programs\, coaching Native youth sports teams\, leading health and wellness cultural programs\, providing cultural curriculum development\, and teaching and practicing her Tribe’s culture and running ceremonies for her people. She is a member of the Wukchumni Tribe\, whose ancestral homelands are near what is today known as Visalia in Tulare County. For the past year\, Darlene has been attending California Truth and Healing Council (CTHC) sessions throughout the state to learn about other California Native Americans’ successes and struggles. She also regularly participates in agricultural groups and activities\, from basketry workshops to Traditional Ecological Knowledge programs. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAerin Monroe\, Pathways of Purpose\, Co-Founder & Co-Director of Pathways of Purpose & LFL Community Land Trust\n\n\n\nAERIN MONROE is a writer\, media producer\, agroecologist and environmental consultant with his BA in Environmental Studies and Community Organizing from Cal Poly Humboldt. With a horticultural\, natural landscaping and organic farming background\, Aerin’s work is focused on Afro- Indigenous foodways and land stewardship\, climate resilience\, environmental justice\, sustainable food systems\, regenerative agriculture\, ecosystem restoration and sovereignty for BIPOC communities. Pathways of Purpose theory of change is inspired by his vocational identity development process and unique educational path in Environmental Justice and Advocacy.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRuth Wortman\, Humboldt Healthy Families & LFL Community Land Trust Partner\, Founder\n\n\n\nRUTH WORTMAN is of many nations both Native and non-Native. She is of Yurok\, Tolowa Dee-ni’\, Mattole and Wiyot descent. She is the cultural coordinator for Sorrel Leaf Healing Center and founder of Humboldt Healthy Families. Ruth participated in restoring the Salmon Ceremony for the local Tribal communities. Along with her professional life\, Ruth is a mother\, ceremony leader\, cultural bearer for traditional practices and lifeways\, tending to and weaving community wellness regionally\, with cultural revitalization and recovery pathways for intertribal Native families\, Women and Two-Spirit communities. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlice Lincoln-Cook\, FireKeepers Alliance & LFL Community Land Trust Partner\, Co-Founder\n\n\n\nALICE LINCOLN-COOK (Karuk) draws on a lifetime of working as an independent artist\, traditional basketweaver\, culture bearer\, and cultural fire expert: she is passionate about teaching the practices she grew up with to help others manage ancestral lands and waters in a good way\, that is healthy for our people and our culture. Prior to serving as President and Board Member with the California Indian Basketweavers Association (CIBA) for eight terms where she coordinated multiple basketweaving conferences and outreach events\, Alice taught basketweaving to California Native Tribal members\, and worked with local schools\, nonprofits\, and state and federal agencies throughout the Pacific Northwest. Alice was instrumental in reviving CIBA’s Following the Smoke program\, an inter-agency training retreat that brought hundreds of Tribal practitioners and affiliates together to connect good fire with traditional land management practices. Since obtaining her Basic 32 Red Card firefighting certification\, Alice has become a highly sought-after speaker at universities\, conferences\, and Basic 32 fire training programs both in California and nationally. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSupport this work\n\n\n\nThe CLT Center convenes practitioners\, researchers\, and communities from different regions to share experiences and strengthen the CLT movement globally. This event is free and open to all. If you’re in a position to support our work\, your contribution helps us continue offering free events\, resources\, and peer exchange opportunities across contexts. \n\n\n\n\nSupport Our Work
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SUMMARY:Land and Justice: First Nations Housing and CLTs in Australia
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of the 2026 Global Community Land Trust (CLT) Virtual Summit\, a six-week series of online events from May 5 – June 10. Explore the full program and register for more events here.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOn June 10\, as the final event in the 2026 Global CLT Virtual Summit\, the Australian Community Land Trust Network will host a panel exploring the role of CLTs in advancing First Nations housing and land justice in Australia. \n\n\n\nBringing together practitioners\, advocates\, and researchers\, this session will highlight emerging First Nations-led CLT initiatives and recent research supporting the relevance of CLTs in Indigenous housing contexts. Speakers will share how Country-centred\, community-led approaches are being developed in response to ongoing housing challenges\, alongside the policy barriers that continue to shape the movement. \n\n\n\nThe discussion will also examine how these experiences contribute to broader conversations on decolonizing housing systems and inform future directions for CLTs in Australia and across the Global South. \n\n\n\nDesigned for CLT practitioners\, policymakers\, researchers\, and the broader public\, this session will offer insights into how CLTs can support Indigenous leadership and community-led housing solutions. The event will be conducted in English\, with interpretation available in Spanish and live captions available in 60+ languages to support accessibility. \n\n\n\nThe global #CLTVirtualSummit2026 is a six-week series of free online events running May 5 – June 10\, 2026\, and anchored by World CLT Day on May 15. Organized by CLT and community land networks from around the world\, the summit brings together practitioners\, residents\, organizers\, and allies to reclaim and honor the Black and Indigenous leadership traditions that gave rise to the CLT model and continue to shape community land stewardship globally. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\nAustralian CLT Network\n\n\n\nBlue Mountains CLT\n\n\n\nWilya Janta\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSupport this work\n\n\n\nThe CLT Center convenes practitioners\, researchers\, and communities from different regions to share experiences and strengthen the CLT movement globally. This event is free and open to all. If you’re in a position to support our work\, your contribution helps us continue offering free events\, resources\, and peer exchange opportunities across contexts. \n\n\n\n\nSupport Our Work
URL:https://www.cltweb.org/event/gcltvs2026-australia/
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SUMMARY:Our Land\, Our Survival: Communities Mobilizing Against Land Grabbing and Dispossession
DESCRIPTION:Recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nResources\n\n\n\n\nEnglish transcript\n\n\n\nBook: Our Land\, Our Survival (Terra Nostra Press)\n\n\n\nSupport Barbuda’s land defenders (GLAN)\n\n\n\nFideicomiso de la Tierra del Caño Martín Peña\n\n\n\nSlide deck (English)\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGrabación\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRecursos\n\n\n\n\nTranscripción español\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWebinar Description\n\n\n\nAcross the globe\, communities are confronting intensifying pressures\, from climate disasters and speculative development to militarization and extractive investment\, that threaten collective land\, self-determination\, and survival. In this context\, alternative land tenure systems are not only policy tools\, but acts of resistance. \n\n\n\nThe International Center for Community Land Trusts hosted a discussion centered around Our Land\, Our Survival\, by Dr Line Algoed and published by Terra Nostra Press. Drawing on cases from Barbuda and Puerto Rico after the 2017 hurricanes\, the book shows how communal land systems become powerful tools to resist land grabbing\, community displacement\, and disaster capitalism. \n\n\n\nWe were especially honored to welcome Leilani Farha\, Global Director of The Shift and former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing\, who opened the session with remarks on land as resistance in the face of the global land rush. Her presentation framed the broader discussion on housing\, land\, and human rights. \n\n\n\nModerated by Amber Khan (University of Washington\, US)\, the webinar featured perspectives from: \n\n\n\n\nLine Algoed\, Vrije Universiteit Brussel\, Postdoctoral Researcher (Belgium)\n\n\n\nJackie Frank\, Barbuda Land Rights and Resources Committee (Barbuda)\n\n\n\nMario Núñez Mercado\, Caño Martín Peña CLT\, Executive Director (Puerto Rico)\n\n\n\n\nTogether\, the speakers explored how communities are implementing alternative land tenure systems to push back against dispossession and defend land as more than property. \n\n\n\nSupport this work\n\n\n\nThe CLT Center convenes practitioners\, researchers\, and communities from different regions to share experiences and strengthen the CLT movement globally. This event is free and open to all. If you’re in a position to support our work\, your contribution helps us continue offering free events\, resources\, and peer exchange opportunities across contexts. \n\n\n\n\nSupport Our Work\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLine Algoed\, Vrije Universiteit Brussel\, Postdoctoral Researcher (Belgium) \n\n\n\nDR LINE ALGOED is a researcher and educator at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) whose work focuses on land governance\, climate justice\, and community-led resistance to displacement. Her research examines how communal and collective land systems function as tools of protection and self-determination in contexts marked by disaster\, speculation\, and extractive development. \n\n\n\nDrawing on long-term engagement with communities in Puerto Rico and Barbuda\, Dr Algoed explores how alternative land tenure systems can serve not only as mechanisms of housing provision\, but as strategies of resistance against land grabbing\, disaster capitalism\, and colonial or imperial pressures. She works at the intersection of urban studies\, political ecology\, and human rights\, with a particular interest in how land can be defended as a shared and living resource. \n\n\n\nShe is the author of Our Land\, Our Survival\, recently published by Terra Nostra Press\, which documents community struggles to protect collective land in the wake of the 2017 hurricanes. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLeilani Farha\, The Shift and former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing\, Global Director (Canada) \n\n\n\nLEILANI FARHA is the Global Director of The Shift\, an international movement to secure the right to housing\, and served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing from 2014 to 2020. A lawyer and global advocate\, her work focuses on housing as a human right and on confronting the financialization of housing and land. During her UN mandate\, Leilani investigated housing conditions across the world\, examining how global capital\, speculation\, and extractive economic systems impact communities’ ability to remain in their homes. She has been a leading voice in reframing housing and land as social goods rather than commodities\, calling for systemic reforms that center human rights\, dignity\, and community control. \n\n\n\nLeilani is also the Executive Producer of the documentary Push\, which highlights the global housing crisis and grassroots resistance movements. Through The Shift\, she works with governments\, cities\, civil society organizations\, and community leaders to advance rights-based housing policy and protect communities from displacement. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJackie Frank\, Barbuda Land Rights and Resources Committee (Barbuda) \n\n\n\nJACKIE FRANK is a community leader and advocate from Barbuda dedicated to defending the island’s communal land system and advancing local self-determination. Following the devastation of Hurricane Irma in 2017\, she became actively involved in efforts to protect Barbuda’s centuries-old system of collective land ownership from privatization and external development pressures. \n\n\n\nAs Barbuda has faced growing threats of land grabbing and large-scale speculative projects\, Jackie has worked alongside community members to raise awareness of the importance of communal tenure as a foundation for cultural survival\, economic resilience\, and environmental stewardship. Her advocacy emphasizes land not as a commodity\, but as a shared inheritance that sustains identity\, livelihood\, and collective rights. Through grassroots organizing and public engagement\, she continues to support community-led resistance to displacement and to promote models of land governance rooted in accountability\, participation\, and long-term stewardship. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmber Khan\, University of Washington\, Postdoctoral Scholar (US) \n\n\n\nAMBER KHAN\, PhD\, MPH is an applied interdisciplinary disaster scholar focused on community-led solutions to the climate crisis\, centering on community-led land use and policy\, affordable housing\, and preventing displacement and gentrification. In her current role as a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Washington\, she leads an international study with the International Center for CLTs on the application of CLTs in building climate and disaster resilience. In her role as a participatory action research fellow at the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC)\, she designs and conducts research on climate displacement\, migration\, and resettlement with Indigenous-led organizations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMario Núñez Mercado\, Caño Martín Peña CLT\, Executive Director (Puerto Rico) \n\n\n\nMARIO NÚÑEZ MERCADO is the Executive Director of both the Fideicomiso de la Tierra del Caño Martín Peña and the Corporación del Proyecto ENLACE del Caño Martín Peña. A community leader for more than 25 years\, he rose through the ranks of the G-8 — the community-based organization representing the eight neighborhoods along the Caño Martín Peña waterway — serving as its president\, treasurer\, and spokesperson before joining the board of ENLACE as vice president. He assumed executive leadership of both entities in September 2019\, a transition that was itself an expression of the project’s community empowerment model: the first community leader to hold the role. The Corporación del Proyecto ENLACE leads the integrated development plan for the Caño Martín Peña district\, working to restore a vital urban waterway while improving infrastructure and quality of life for residents. The Fideicomiso de la Tierra is the collective land tenure instrument that ensures those residents cannot be displaced as their neighborhood improves. Mario has been a resident of the Las Monjas community within the district throughout his life.
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SUMMARY:Transforming Informal Settlements: A New Policy Brief on Community Land Trusts
DESCRIPTION:Register here\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWebinar Description\n\n\n\nMore than 1.2 billion people currently live in informal settlements worldwide\, and that number is projected to grow to three billion by 2050. Conventional responses—individualized titling and top-down upgrading programs—too often deliver public investment straight into the hands of speculators\, displacing the very residents they were meant to help. \n\n\n\nThe International Center for Community Land Trusts\, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy\, and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) invite you to a conversation on the community land trust as a tool for transforming self-built informal settlements without displacing the people who live there. The session previews the upcoming policy brief\, “Community Land Trusts: A Tool to Transform Informal Settlements to the Benefit of Resident Communities\,” ahead of its publication. Drawing on the Caño Martín Peña CLT in Puerto Rico and emerging initiatives elsewhere in the Global South\, this policy brief provides an overview of how CLTs can secure tenure and enable upgrading of informal settlements\, and describes both the benefits to and challenges of implementation. \n\n\n\nSpeakers will bring legal\, institutional\, and on-the-ground perspectives to the conversation. The discussion is designed for public officials\, CLT practitioners\, community activists\, and researchers working on land tenure and informal settlements around the world. The event will be conducted in English\, with live captions available in 60+ languages to support accessibility. \n\n\n\nModerated by Mariana Gallo from World Habitat\, the webinar will feature:  \n\n\n\n\nEnrique Silva\, Chief Program Officer\, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy (US)\n\n\n\nFrancesca Lionetti\, Associate Expert\, Housing Rights\, Diversity and Inclusion\, UN-Habitat (Germany\, Kenya)\n\n\n\nMaría E. Hernández-Torrales\, Attorney\, Community Economic Development Law Clinic\, University of Puerto Rico; founding member\, Caño Martín Peña CLT (Puerto Rico)\n\n\n\nRicardo Carneiro\, Architect and Researcher\, Estúdio Periférico; co-leading the Cova de Moura CLT effort (Portugal)\n\n\n\nTarcyla Fidalgo\, Lawyer; Favela CLT Project Coordinator\, Catalytic Communities; Program Lead\, Global South CLT Initiative\, International Center for CLTs; lead author of the policy brief (Brazil)\n\n\n\n\nSupport this work\n\n\n\nThe CLT Center convenes practitioners\, researchers\, and communities from different regions to share experiences and strengthen the CLT movement globally. This event is free and open to all. If you’re in a position to support our work\, your contribution helps us continue offering free events\, resources\, and peer exchange opportunities across contexts. \n\n\n\n\nSupport Our Work\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnrique Silva\, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy\, Chief Program Officer (US) \n\n\n\nENRIQUE SILVA is chief program officer (CPO) at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. He leads the development of the institute’s overall strategic program and coordinates workplans and strategies across the institute’s impact areas and centers. As CPO\, Silva oversees a staff of 47 and co-leads the institute’s annual planning and budgeting process. Silva is also responsible for identifying and overseeing new initiatives that leverage the Lincoln Institute’s resources and expand its presence globally. In addition\, he leads the institute’s programs in Africa\, co-directs the institute’s master’s degree program in land policy and sustainable development with Spain’s National University of Distance Education\, and assists in the development and management of projects on land policy and urbanization in Latin America. Silva collaborates on the development and management of initiatives that focus on a range of themes\, from land-based fiscal instruments to the fiscal and land policy dimensions of large-scale urban projects to planning regimes and climate change adaptation. Silva teaches courses on land policy\, as well as urban governance and the politics of planning\, at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. Prior to his arrival at the Lincoln Institute\, Silva was an assistant professor of city planning and the program coordinator for the graduate programs in city planning and urban affairs at Boston University. Silva holds a PhD in city and regional planning from the University of California\, Berkeley\, an MS in planning from the University of Toronto\, and a BA in political science from Columbia University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrancesca Lionetti\, UN-Habitat\, Associate Expert\, Housing Rights\, Diversity\, and Inclusion (Germany\, Kenya) \n\n\n\nFRANCESCA LIONETTI is an international urban governance and housing policy specialist with over 12 years of experience with the United Nations and Council of Europe\, working with national and local governments to strengthen institutions\, policies and capacities for inclusive and sustainable urban development. Expertise in institutional capacity building\, multilevel governance\, adequate housing\, homelessness\, informal settlements\, land and tenure\, stakeholder engagement and evidence-based policy development. Extensive experience coordinating policy diagnostics\, developing normative and policy recommendations\, facilitating multi-stakeholder and intergovernmental processes\, and designing peer-learning and capacity-building initiatives. Field and programme experience across Africa\, Europe\, the Middle East and North Africa\, Central Asia and the Caucasus\, working with governments\, municipalities\, civil society\, international organisations\, donors\, experts and academia. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaría E. Hernández Torrales\, Community Economic Development Law Clinic\, University of Puerto Rico; founding member\, Caño Martín Peña CLT (Puerto Rico) \n\n\n\nMARÍA E. HERNÁNDEZ TORRALES holds an LL.M. (master of laws) in Environmental Law from Vermont Law School and an M.A. in Business Education from New York University. Since 2008\, she has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Puerto Rico School of Law\, where she teaches the Community Economic Development Clinic. For over two decades\, she has provided pro bono legal services to the Fideicomiso de la Tierra del Caño Martín Peña\, the grassroots organization G8\, and Proyecto ENLACE del Caño Martín Peña. She was the lead attorney in drafting the Fideicomiso’s regulations\, served as President of the Board of Trustees for 10 years\, and was a board member for 12 years. Since 2023\, she has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Corporación del Proyecto ENLACE del Caño Martín Peña. Prof. Hernández-Torrales provided legal advice in the establishment of the Fideicomiso para el Desarrollo de Río Piedras\, and the Fideicomiso de Tierras Comunitarias para la Agricultura Sostenible. Additionally\, she also has been a board member of the International Center for Community Land Trusts and co-edited the book On Common Ground: International perspectives on the Community Land Trusts. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRicardo Carneiro\, Estúdio Periférico\, Architect and Researcher; co-leading  Cova da Moura CLT effort (Portugal) \n\n\n\nRICARDO CARNEIRO is an architect\, urban planner\, and right-to-housing activist\, and co-founder of Estúdio Periférico\, a Lisbon-based collective working across architecture\, urbanism\, planning\, housing\, and urban policy. He holds a degree in Architecture from the University of Lisbon (FAUL). Alongside its practice\, the studio maintains dedicated lines of work in timber construction and in the research and development of community-led\, non-speculative housing models. \n\n\n\nTarcyla Fidalgo\, Lawyer; International Center for CLTs\, Global South CLT Initiative\, Program Lead; Catalytic Communities\, Favela CLT Project Coordinator; Lead author of the policy brief (Brazil) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTARCYLA FIDALGO is a lawyer and urban planner who has been working to advance land and housing rights in Brazil for over a decade. Academically\, she holds a PhD in urban planning and has authored numerous publications on land rights and Community Land Trusts (CLTs). She coordinated the Favela-CLT project for eight years and currently leads the Global South initiative for the International Center for Community Land Trust. \n\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\nMariana Gallo\, World Habitat (Netherlands) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMARIANA GALLO coordinates the World Habitat Awards and World Habitat’s programmes and partnerships. She holds an MSc in Science\, Technology and International Development from the University of Edinburgh\, specializing in innovation and knowledge transfer\, and studied International Housing and Human Settlements at LSE. She has worked on housing and development programs across Europe\, East Africa\, and Latin America\, and currently lives in the Netherlands where she is on the board of a non-profit supporting migrant families.
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