Tabetha Zimmerman (she/her)
Tabetha is a tech professional with a passion for food access. She credits the free lunch program for her interest in tech after winning an academic scholarship in middle school that provided her with her first computer, igniting a passion for policy writing, food, and software development. This guided Tabetha to George Washington University to […]
Tamisha Singletary (they/them)
Tamisha Singletary brings over 15 years of experience as a community farmer and organizer committed to equity in sustainable living to the Young Farmers’ policy team. A co-founder to a 4.75 acre non-profit land project with four other young farmers, Singletary has also worked with five other growers’ organizations in their hometown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Rooted […]
Shelby Saucier (they/them)
Shelby is passionate about sustainability and building equitable systems and comes to Young Farmers with experience across multiple sectors. Starting their career as a farmer in Maine, Shelby transitioned into career counseling and international recruiting, international nonprofit management, and has most recently worked with GrowNYC to centralize and structure their recruiting and training initiatives. Shelby […]
Angel Papineau (they/them)
Angel’s love of growing food was nurtured at a young age by school gardens in their hometown of Somerville, Massachusetts. For the last decade, Angel has been loving, farming, and dancing in Philly. As they pursue work with Young Farmers they are only backyard gardening, but they have big dreams of ranching and fiber farming. […]
Míchi López (she/her)
Míchi (rhymes with peachy) serves as the FRSAN-NE Coordinator with the Coalition. Míchi is a beginner farmer who received her Chemistry B.A. from the University of Iowa. Prior to joining Young Farmers, Míchi served as a co-farm manager of a 5-acre educational farm and as an Access and Equity Coordinator, working to identify gaps within […]
Yahaira Cáceres (she/they)
Yahaira is leading our immigration and labor policy and solidarity work at Young Farmers—a new focus for the organization. She grew up in a small immigrant agricultural community in Southwest Florida and graduated from the University of Florida with a B.A. in Political Science and a minor in Anthropology. She comes from a migrant farmworker […]
Leslie Rodríguez (she/her)
Leslie Rodriguez serves as the FRSAN-NE Manager. She completed her undergraduate degree from Hood College in Law and Society in 2015 and she earned her Juris Doctorate Degree at New England Law Boston in 2018. As a Latinx advocate, Leslie has a strong desire to serve under-resourced immigrants. For over seven years, Leslie assisted community-based […]
Aviva Paley (she/her)
Aviva Paley is a non-profit leader with ten years of experience working at the intersection of sustainability and economic justice in the food system. Before serving as the Chief of Staff at Young Farmers, Aviva served as the Co-Founder and Senior Director of Kitchens for Good, a San Diego-based non-profit that addresses food waste, hunger, […]
Jennifer Vazquez (she/her)
Jen has been farming for almost 20 years: from owning her own pasture-based livestock farm, to managing mid-sized organic fruit and vegetable operations with agri-tourism and event businesses. Her background is in community organizing, farm-based education, Indigenous knowledge and food sovereignty, and participatory research. She has worked for Tribal governments and in the non-profit sector […]
Lotanna Obodozie (she/her)
Lotanna is passionate about creating a more just and sustainable food system and joins Young Farmers with a background in climate advocacy, environmental justice, and community development. Prior to leading Young Farmers’ climate change work, Lotanna worked at the Center for American Progress and the Local Initiatives Support Corporation. A Northern California native, she holds […]