Jazz Marr
I’m an urban farmer currently doing my first CSA collaboration in Omaha, Nebraska. My farm is called Sweet Selma. I’m going into my third year of this work and am constantly figuring out what farming is for me. I farm for liberation, connection, and power, and I foresee that showing up in different ways throughout […]
Molly Rockamann
Molly Rockamann is founder and CEO of EarthDance Organic Farm School, a nonprofit educational farm focused on advancing food justice. Her major roles are to lead the team at EarthDance to achieve an abundance of healthy food production, farm and garden education, equitable food distribution, land stewardship, and place-based celebration while building relationships in the […]
Lily Nauta
I started my farming at the Center for Agroecology at UC Santa Cruz, where I started out as an intern and ended up working there for 3 years. Some issues I care about are equity, housing access, mental health, harm reduction, and land restoration. I am always trying to learn more about the land, growing […]
Emily Arasim
Emily Arasim was born and raised in Tesuque and now resides in Alcalde in the Española Valley of New Mexico. She is dedicated to working alongside community to protect traditional seed, farming, and water stewardship practices, and to participating in movements for environmental, economic, and social justice for land-based peoples of New Mexico. For the […]
Jesse Schaffer
Over the past 10+ years, Jesse has worked in a variety of capacities within the food system, from community building around food justice and education, to researching food insecurity and building educational and culturally-rooted farms. After graduating from the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS) in 2015, Jesse managed Birmingham’s largest urban teaching […]
Maria Dominique Villanueva
Maria Dominique Villanueva is the co-founder of Fountain Heights Farms, a community-centered urban farm in Birmingham, Alabama, and founder of the BIPOC-centered #WeAllEat Food Cooperative. During the growing season, Fountain Heights Farms provides on average 100 pounds of fresh produce to neighbors and the wider community each week through Maria’s Fresh Bags, Free Market Stand […]
Brielle Wright
A pioneer in the agriculture space, Brielle Wright is the co-owner of The Farmers B.A.G. (Blessed, Abundant, and Gifted). She started her career in agriculture by way of obtaining her Bachelor of Science degree in Agribusiness at North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University. Before co-founding The Farmers B.A.G with her sister, Michelle Wright, Brielle […]
Tianna Kennedy
Tianna has been farming in the Northern Catskills for over a decade. Currently, she is the Executive Director of the Catskills Agrarian Alliance, which is in partnership with Star Route Farm, LLC, a vegetable farm she co-owns with Amanda Wong and Walter Riesen. Star Route’s diversified vegetable and small grain operation serves food justice organizations […]
Michelle Week
Farmer Michelle Week is the owner of x̌ast sq̓it (hast squeit) which translates to Good Rain in the traditional language of the sngaytskstx (Sinixt). Michelle is of Sinixt—also known as Arrow Lakes—ancestry, a First Nations People of Okanagan country of British Columbia and north-central Washington. She is a first generation, female farmer stewarding the land, […]
Celina Ngozi Esekawu
Celina comes from a lineage of agrarians based in Nigeria and the U.S. South. She utilizes ancestral earth-based knowledge to grow culturally-relevant foods on her family land. Since receiving her M.A. in the education field from UT Austin, her work centers on the intersection of race and food to promote food sovereignty.