Margaret Quern-Atkins - Facilities
A Community Organizer by trade, Margaret has spent over three decades exploring what it means to be community. Beginning her organizing work and street outreach in Camden, NJ, she began walking with people and their families in the NJ state prison system. She went onto co-found and direct NJ Scholarship and Transformative Education in Prisons (NJ-STEP), a movement in partnership with people in prison and institutions of higher education to be able to earn their AA and BA degrees while incarcerated. Since leaving that work to focus on raising her son, the joy of her life, she created an intentional community with people committed to land, justice, and mindfulness; opened her living space for people interested in healing and spirituality; and is currently engaged in the work of becoming an Interspiritual Minister. She has the honor and pleasure of continuing to walk alongside the extraordinary artists, alchemists, and activists she met inside prison who are now organizing, changing, and enhancing the communities and systems which shaped them. For the last few years, she has joined the Evolutionary Collective and practices mutual awakening, allowing a new consciousness to emerge in the space between us as we meet and connect. She feels called to be a steward of The Riverhouse which is in her life to be shared and used as a resource for connection, community building and creative expression.
