Kim (butterfly) Fry has been working in the environmental movement since she was in high school in the early 1990’s where she helped to found the youth environmental organization in her hometown, the city of Cornwall’s first environmental day camp and sat on the board of several environmental initiatives.  While completing her degree in environmental studies and doing graduate work in environmental politics, Kim became involved in anti-globalization activism and was a regular speaker and media spokesperson prior to and during the summit of Americas in Quebec City in 2001.  Kim has been a regular guest on CBC, CTV & TV Ontario talking about environmental issues and was a regular political commentator for the Michael Coren Show.  Currently, Kim is a forest campaigner for Greenpeace Canada and has previously worked for the Toronto Environmental Alliance, ForestEthics and the Ontario Environment Network.

Kim has been active as a priestess, teacher and community organizer in the Reclaiming tradition of witchcraft for ten years.  She has often combined her spirituality with activism and traveled with the living river/pagan cluster (initiated by Starhawk) for many actions.  Kim has facilitated dozens of workshops on magical activism, has helped to organize a pagan presence at many political gatherings (including getting Starhawk to speak at the Earth Day rally in Toronto in April 2007) and is a key organizer of the Toronto Reclaiming Community. 
Currently Kim is devoting much of her extra curricular energy to developing a new alternative public school that will bring together environmental education, social justice, the arts and community activism. (www.thegrovecommunityschool.ca). Kim is a mother to 5 year old Brighid, a proud withchlet, witchcamp veteran and junior priestess in her own right.

Topic:

Teach Your Children Well: Raising a new generation who will work to heal the earth

I plan to talk about my experiences and background in activism, political organizing, priestessing and parenting to talk about the importance of raising children in the goddess tradition and fostering a deep sense of connection to the natural world and for social and environmental justice.  My talk will be informed by my experiences working in the reclaiming tradition and will refer to the three legs of the witches' cauldron of growth: magic, personal healing and political and environmental activism.
I see a new generation of children, some call them the crystal children as being particularly important to bring hope, wisdom and a profound understanding to the task ahead of us.