Kathrine Force

Experience

• Neighborhood Food Circle Network

  Project Developer

  Sep 2025 - Present

  The Neighborhood Food Circle Network builds local food ecosystems to enhance food security and community resilience through collaboration and mutual aid.

  • Architect systems and tools that make community resource distribution efficient, intuitive, and accessible.
  • Lead development of platforms and dashboards translating complex needs into actionable solutions.
  • Build volunteer and operational frameworks that prioritize retention, clarity, and accessibility.
  • Forge strategic partnerships with local organizations to align resources and scale impact.
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  Cow Cruise

  Founder & Lead Systems Designer

  Jul 2024 - Present

  Cow Cruise is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting rural tourism, supporting local farms, and advancing autism research for girls.

  • Design and lead systems connecting neurodivergent families with rural farms through accessible, low-impact agritourism.
  • Oversee operations, digital platforms, membership structures, and growth models for a sustainable, community-powered ecosystem.
  • Build partnerships, communications, and volunteer frameworks that expand impact while prioritizing accessibility and inclusion.
  • Ensure compliance, safety, and impact measurement to maintain ethical standards and maximize social and economic benefits.
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  Advergent Dynamics

  Founder & Civil-Social Engineer

  Dec 2009 - Present

  Inspired by the theory of advergent mutualism, Advergent Dynamics is a systems design and research practice that applies principles of neurodivergent-driven innovation to build systems that are flexible, equitable, and effective for everyone. I engineer social architectures that help communities self-organize, share responsibility, and build resilience through distributed collaboration. I work by the principle of advergent mutualism, which is the idea that self-directed micro-contributions can converge into shared outcomes when neurodivergent design makes participation intuitive and accessible. I focus on creating those structures so communities can coordinate without rigid hierarchy, avoid burnout, and generate stability through collective action rather than centralized control. Much of my work involves building the frameworks that allow mutual aid networks, grassroots groups, and social organizations to function reliably even with inconsistent capacity, low executive function, or a wide range of cognitive styles among participants. I design pathways and communication models that keep momentum while reducing emotional and cognitive overhead. This includes developing trauma-informed and neurodivergent-accessible tools, documentation, and facilitation methods that make participation sustainable. I also support organizations during periods of growth, strain, or structural ambiguity. That can mean designing governance models, role architectures, accountability systems, and knowledge infrastructures that reflect how people actually behave in the wild rather than how traditional orgs think they should. When tech is needed, I translate community realities into deliverables that match the lived context of folks using them. This emphasis enables coordinated action through clarity and shared understanding. I help organizations build partnerships, test programs, and articulate impact through evaluation models and reporting systems that clearly capture nuance. Whether the project is neighborhood-scale or institution-wide, my goal is to make collaborative action easier, more humane, and more structurally sound by aligning everyday behaviors with the systemic patterns that allow mutualism to emerge and endure.

  • Design systems that enable communities to self-organize, collaborate, and build resilience through distributed participation.
  • Create trauma-informed and neurodivergent-accessible tools and frameworks that reduce cognitive and emotional overhead.
  • Develop governance, role structures, and accountability systems that scale with real-world behavior and organizational growth.
  • Support program development, partnerships, and impact measurement to ensure sustainable, collective outcomes.