Tiffany Bellfield El-Amin
Tiffany Bellfield El-Amin was raised in rural Madison County, Kentucky. She grew up tobacco farming with her grandparents and lived a homestead life. She began community organizing in 2013 around education and food access. She is a doula and her focus has always been on children and families. She received her Associates in Science in […]
Celina Ngozi Esekawu
Celina Ngozi is a Nigerian Igbo/Black agrarian from the South. They moved from the Dallas/Fort Worth area in 2022 to be full-time on their family land in a rural Freedom town on Tonkawa land in Central Texas, which has been in their maternal family for 150 years. They have been growing food and involved in […]
Sun English
Sun (Bobby) English Jr. is a QTPOC herbalist, farmer, educator, and ritual performance artist of African and Accohannock descent from Baltimore. They spend their days creating with Earth, Wood, Mycelium, Voice, and Metal, whether that be in the family farm, wood shop, metal shop, mushroom lab, or the apothecary. Sun comes from a rich lineage […]
Justin James
Justin James is a community organizer, educator, and land steward. He is a former member of BYP100, as well as the Cooperation for Liberation Study and Working Group. They are currently involved with comrades in converting vacant lots into community gardens, food forests, and farms. Justin co-leads Woven Roots Community Garden and Port Sisters Fruit […]
Sha’Von Terrell
Sha’Von Terrell is a child of the Deep South, a freedom dreamer, and a strategic food systems planner specializing in food and asset-based community development. She advances local self-reliance, community-led development, and self-determination through her work. She has traveled the country organizing and consulting with anchor institutions, such as colleges, universities, churches, and grassroots organizations, […]
Shavonn (Whiten) Watkins
Dr. Shavonn (Whiten) Watkins is a beginning farmer and owner of Sowing Development Solutions, LLC., a small-scale pasture poultry, specialty crops, and microgreens operation based in rural Mississippi. Dr. Watkins earned her Bachelor of Science from Xavier University of Louisiana (2011), and her Masters and Doctorate in Entomology from Montana State University (2014) and Texas […]