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ALACHUA CONSERVATION TRUST INCORPORATED

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Gainesville, FL
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LauraPredny

My experience with ACT is so profoundly disturbing and so insanely detrimental to my life that I cannot believe that it is real as it feels like I am trapped in a horrible nightmare and I can’t find anyone to help me. <br>No human being should ever have to endure such incredible division, discrimination and dehumanization from a conservation trust and also a conservation cemetery. It is not normal. My experience is incredible gender-based violence and discrimination as well as discrimination for autism. I have been asking on repeat to please engage in dialogue, problem solve and build peace for so many years now, but instead, I have been ignored, dismissed, silenced, smeared, slandered, blocked, excluded, repeatedly traumatized by law enforcement and in the legal system. They have paid a female attorney whose father was a judge to repeatedly attack, berate and belittle me in court, which is gender-based violence and profoundly disturbing. She knows nothing about me and my property and she could.care less that I have autism; she has repeatedly attacked me verbally for things she knows nothing about. They have told numerous outright lies, including that ACT met with me to listen to my grievances, which is a lie. Not one single person has ever taken the time to speak with me before throwing me under the bus in the legal system. I never deserved this. I have always had legitimate purpose as a female landowner doing my best on my own. I am also not willful or malicious; I have autism. This nightmare has been happening ever since I volunteered here and became a landowner shortly thereafter. It has been happening ever since they received funding for their Women in the Woods Program and since they have been professing to support women. This is also a falsehood as I have been suffering horrible retaliation the past 8 years, and not just from one individual but from numerous people and pretty much this whole organization- a nonprofit conservation trust.. It has been so detrimental to my life, mind, heart, spirit and soul. Every time I reach out for help, it is compiled and used against me in retaliation and to traumatize even more. I really feel that I need help in this David v Goliath situation. <br>I can’t even go to Prairie Creek Conservation Cemetery if anyone I know dies. I can’t go anywhere near ACT due to a civil injunction because of the former Land Stewardship Director who moved across country over 2 years ago. Why am I still blocked and excluded for a man who moved? It was always based upon lies and exaggerations in order to silence me. I do not understand how literally everyone can turn a blind eye to this abusive situation. I am being treated worse than an animal. The things they have said to me in court are highly abusive and beyond dehumanizing. There is a very serious problem here at ACT for this to be perpetuated for so long and no one is helping me. Instead, there has been incredible cover-up and I now even have some documentation of the extent as it runs very deep and is again profoundly disturbing and unsettling. <br>Policies and procedures desperately need to change to protect vulnerable individuals here. If you are planning on doing an internship or volunteering here, be forewarned that if you have any problems, you will be turned into the problem by this whole entire organization and pretty much the whole community since ACT is so popular. They do many good things and many nice people work here but there is also a very serious problem here. <br>Also, there really needs to be term limits for board members as this is the heart of the problem in addition to the policies and procedures. Some board members have served on the board for a decade or more and they would do anything to protect the reputation at ACT, even if it means throwing an autistic female landowner under the bus which has happened to me. This is exactly how and why we have the Me, Too movement- because of bylaws that value an organization over individuals and human beings in our community.

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