Tyler Wakefield

Tyler Wakefield is a systems design facilitator, interstitial togetherness weaver, and community tender devoted to cultivating trust, joyful coordination, and hyperlocal-to-global economies that serve life. Guided by a call to weave biocultural coherence and coordination across human communities and the more-than-human life community, Tyler studies and facilitates within and between a variety of intellectual, spiritual, and professional communities across the regenerative, bioregional, metamodern/ liminal web, and systems transformation spaces.

Tyler is a Co-founder and Co-steward of The BioFi Project, a think-and-do tank supporting bioregions to design, build, and implement Bioregional Financing Facilities that connect financial resources with the regenerators implementing community-determined strategies for long-term economic transformation and resilience. He is also a fellow at The Nectary, an ongoing series of extended residential research and teaching gatherings aimed at restoring our human capacity for intimacy, cooperation, and interdependence with the broader web of Life. 

Tyler holds a BA from Duke University, where he studied the nexus of climate, ecology, economics, energy, policy, and culture. After graduating in 2017, he immersed himself in cleantech business development and policy, climate justice community organizing, and alternative currency and governance design. He recently served as the founding Associate Executive Director of the Energy Policy Design Institute (EPDI), where he helped design and facilitate processes for cohering multistakeholder alignment on perplexing state and federal policy challenges. 

Tyler received his most humbling and insightful educational experience while spending over a year volunteering for and ultimately co-stewarding a regenerative community impact center and cooperative in Lanquín, Guatemala that was dedicated to the economic empowerment and ecocultural health of a network of Mayan Q’eqchi’ smallholder farming communities.