<div> "All Flourishing is mutual" - Robin Wall Kimmerer
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<div>Help Me Grow My Own Family!
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<div>I have watched squishy three-month-olds become sassy college students. I have been there for first words, first steps, first friendships, the spectacular falls, and the getting back up. For years before I ever set foot in a graduate classroom, I was already deep in the work: nannying, leading outdoor adventures through the parks and green spaces of New York City, learning the particular magic of what happens when you give a child a patch of dirt and enough time to really be in it. That work lit something in me that I needed to understand more fully, so I went back to school. My Master's in Early Childhood Education gave language and research to what I had already been living. It confirmed what the mud had always told me: that children grow best outside, in wonder, in real relationship with the world around them.
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<div>So I built a school around that truth. The Nature School Cooperative is a Worker-Owned nature-based preschool I founded and continue to grow, rooted in equitable access, grounded in research, and run by the educators who teach in it. It is the professional expression of everything I have believed since I first watched a two-year-old discover a worm and treat it like the most astonishing thing on earth. It is, in its way, a love letter to children and to the outdoors, and to the idea that neither should be a luxury.
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<div>And also, since before I began taking care of other people's children, I have wanted my own child. That want has been patient, and it has waited through graduate school, through building a business, through years of working in a profession I love, that does not pay what it should. I earn $65,000 a year, and I have always lived close to the edge of what that covers. The financial stability I kept waiting for before starting a family never quite arrived, not because I wasn't working toward it, but because care work in this country is chronically undervalued, and I kept choosing it anyway.
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<div>I am now in the East Bay of San Francisco, finding new communities of queer parents, and beginning a fertility journey that perimenopause is making urgent. As a solo, queer, non-binary person, I am navigating this without a partner's income and with little to no insurance coverage. Fertility treatment typically costs $30,000 to $100k or more, covering consultations, medications, IUI or IVF procedures, sperm donor costs, and labs. My savings are already gone, spent on the first steps of this process.
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<div>I cannot do this alone, and I am asking for help.
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<div>This is not separate from the work I have always done. Every child I have watched grow, every outdoor classroom I have built, every family I have shown up for, it has all been pointing here. The care has always been the through line. Becoming a parent is the most natural extension of who I already am and what I already know how to do. I am ready, I have been ready, I just need help getting through the doors of financial barriers.
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<div>If you believe that care workers deserve care, that queer solo parents deserve community, that someone who has spent a career giving should be able to receive, this is a place to put that belief.
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<div>Every dollar goes directly toward the fertility process. Sharing this with someone who might connect with it helps just as much.
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<div>Thank you for being part of this!
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<div>— Kat
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