Top 5 Gallup Strengths: Futuristic + Activator + Ideation + Connectedness + Strategic
(10/10 recommend taking the Gallup Strengths Assessment. It’s life-changing.)

Myers Briggs: ENFJ  |  Astrology: Taurus

Ancestry:  33.5% Scandinavian  |  22.5% English  |  22.0% North and West European  |  17.5% Irish, Scottish and Welsh  |  3.3% Greek  |  1.2% Nigerian

5 artists: Jackie Morris, William Morris, Gabrielle Tamaya, Brian Andreas, and James Purkey.

5 (-ish) books: The Discworld series (especially The Truth, Going Postal, Making Money, and all the Tiffany Aching books) by Terry Pratchett
Doughnut Economics, by Kate Raworth;
Monoculture, by FS Michaels;
The Alex Stern trilogy (Ninth House and Hell Bent) by Leigh Bardugo
The entire Expanse Series, by James A Corey

5 songs: King, Florence and The Machine;
The Mountain, Dave Carter and Tracey Grammer
We Are, Sweet Honey in the Rock;
Enjoy The Ride, Morcheeba;
I’m Just A Lucky So-And-So, Ella Fitzgerald

Bio: Eleanor Justice is an systems thinker and futurist with decades of cross-industry experience in behind-the-scenes creative problem solving.

She has been described as a “human think tank” and has quietly served as a strategic advisor for small startups, community groups, activists, and individual artisans throughout the mid-Atlantic.

In her past life in the corporate design world, she served as art director and oversaw complex projects for Reebok, MasterCard, American Airlines, British Airways, Dell, and T. Rowe Price.

In her role as Director of the York Time Bank she established the Penn Street Art Bridge, a public art space in downtown York that successfully transformed on ongoing vandalism issue into a vibrant and self-organizing community asset.

Eleanor served in the leadership team of CHI (Community for Holistic Integration) and was the organizer of Gratitude Gatherings, Coloring Coterie, and the York branch of Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School as well as a plethora of invitation-only creative events.

Eleanor’s mixed media artwork has been shown in galleries in Alexandria, VA, York PA, Frederick MD. Her photography work has been published in Maryland Life Magazine, and she has organized numerous creative workshops and photoshoots throughout the region.

Eleanor has been a Reiki master/teacher since 2005. For several years she practiced Reiki at Mystical Voyage in Baltimore and private clients from Virginia to Pennsylvania.

She first came to York in 2011 to steward a blueberry farm, successfully transitioning a chemical-dependent operation to one that used zero pesticides or herbicides.

Eleanor is a long-time permaculture enthusiast, and led the “Hooga What Now?” hugelkultur workshop for Horn Farm Center in 2014 and several heirloom seed swaps between 2012 and early 2020.

For more than a decade Eleanor has made a study of community-scale resilience factors. Areas of research span from social infrastructure, gift economies, third places, and creative placemaking to developing regenerative models and self-perpetuating systems for projects spanning agriculture, social enterprise, wellness, recovery programs, and intentional communities.

She is the founder of The Southworth Project, whose mission is to nurture a regenerative renaissance.

The Southworth Project takes its name from Eleanor’s mother, Elizabeth Southworth Kitson Cooley-Prost (a raconteur and renaissance woman who devoted her life to supporting what is “True, Beautiful, and Good for the People”) and from her maternal ancestors, including Saint John Southworth, who tried to do the same.