Ryun Anderson lives in southern Maine where she tends to the places where life and love take root with a sense of attention and wonder. 

Ryun’s early work involved supporting youth leadership that emerges from the heart of their being. Both outdoors and inside, she has supported youth advocacy and co-created alternatives to dominant institutions, including youth-facilitated processes for repairing harm, and a statewide youth peer support network. Ryun later led a statewide restorative justice organization, co-developing programming with people who had caused harm, as well as survivors of individual and institutional harm, and facilitating systems change within schools and organizations. The organization transformed toward leadership by those directly impacted by systems, but in this process, there was pain and harm. After leaving, Ryun entered into a period of reflection and capacity-building for work that centers love, enduring  solidarity, and healing, especially when working in coalition in proximity to both institutional and movement spaces. This took the form of practicing as a trauma therapist, deepening relationships with mentors, training in interfaith movement chaplaincy, and engaging with self-care and repair when repair was welcomed. 

Her current work focuses on accompaniment. This takes place in multiple pathways, with community dialogue, with individuals transforming their relationship to systems of domination, with organizations who are making more room for life to flow within, and within a learning ecosystem dedicated to leadership for sustainability. Her relationships of responsibility and care in this work are beloved and tended daily, and we grow together.