{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgreenhorns-radio.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fae4a36fc-ae4a36fc","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Episode 289: Sara Day Evans, Accelerating Appalachia","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/48e45c/48e45c3b-a955-4ba5-bade-74f8c68a69b5/1a826fda-71f8-49c2-9cb3-1c068938d087/1487110168artwork.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"Based in Kentucky and North Carolina, Sara Day Evans works through Accelerating Appalachia to advance the regenerative economy for North America's most diverse foodshed: the Appalachian region. She's a program developer, social entrepreneur, and living bridge who for over 20 years has delivered powerful impact through strong leadership, creativity, and collaboration. Launching Accelerating Appalachia was borne out of a variety of circumstances: a natural evolution of her ongoing commitment to people, place and prosperity in Appalachia; conversations with leaders in social enterprise and impact investing, the natural abundance and beauty of Appalachia; her connection to place as a 6th generation Kentuckian; her service to distressed communities in Appalachia to help rebuild the loss of their furniture, textile, and farming economies while with the NC Department of Commerce; her impactful work with Kentucky's Environmental Protection Cabinet; and the deep influence of her longtime Kentucky friends, bell hooks and Wendell Berry, and her activist, physicist parents and inspiring children. A hydrogeologist, community planner, entrepreneur, former truck driver, waitress, maid, and woodworker, Sara Day is also an accomplished musician, writer and poet."}