Cassondra Warney
Respect, Community & Systems
Superstruct
Cassondra Warney is a facilitator of systems change, finding symbiotic bonds between sectors and systems that are typically siloed. She has always been fascinated by how to maximize efficiencies when different worlds recognize their intersection points and share resources for mutual benefit.Â
As a strategist, project manager, and policy expert, she has worked on large-scale change initiatives with government agencies, nonprofits, CDFIs, consultancies, and academia.Â
Cassondra has advised dozens of for and non-profit housing developers on the best ways to win approval for housing projects with CDFIs and other lenders. She led landmark legislation that centered indigenous communities in Oregon that created proactive community-based resources. She has worked on successful political projects in rural, suburban and urban communities across every major geographic region of the US. More recently, she has engaged large tech firms on how a rebounding controlled environment agricultural (CEA) industry could enhance grid stability via investment in cogeneration.
"What if we envisioned our communities not as isolated sectors, but as interconnected ecosystems—where industries and systems are designed to collaborate, share resources, and thrive together?" – Cassondra Warney
Catalyst for Systems Change
She is interested in how we rebuild the housing stock we are losing with the growing number of natural disasters – and how we can center resilience, human-scale design and Indigenous Knowledge Systems in the process. We are at an inflection point where there are also shifts in our food and energy systems. Cassondra is interested in the opportunity to bring public and private investments together across food/ag, energy and housing to cocreate circular economy models that can adapt in our ever changing environment.Â
With companies planning for significant infrastructure investments, Cassondra offers gap analyses for housing and community development, market research for climate resilient housing solution strategies and public-private partnership development. She also offers grant writing, most recently for Food Future Co, the world’s first scale-up accelerator in food, agriculture and social entrepreneurship.
Cassondra is based in Brooklyn, NY where she is leading her community garden’s efforts to become a permanent City garden.
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