ALUMNI
Our collective of CASFS POC Alumni are amazing human-beings, spreading their passion and knowledge around the world.
Their extensive capacity and field of interest is interwoven as farmers, urban gardeners, educators, health & wellness mentors, healers, herbalists, permaculturalist, seed savers, policy advocates, program directors, landscape architects & designers, environmental & food justice activists, entrepreneurs, community leaders, mindful humans on the Earth with deeply profound souls.
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CATHERINE SNEED, 1987
San Francisco, CA
Founder and Director, The Garden Project
Farm based job and life skills training, youth, organic food donation
www.gardenproject.org
DAVID SNEED, 1994
San Francisco, CA
Farm Manager, The Garden Project
Farm based job and life skills training, youth, organic food donation
www.gardenproject.org

AKIKO MINAMI, 1999
Santa Cruz, CA
Social justice advocate, POC community organizer
UCSC Teacher Credential/MA Education student 2017-18
Parent Garden Committee Head at Monarch Community School
Parent of two amazing daughters, Tamarah (11) and Emunah (6)

HERMAN YEE, 2000
Oakland CA
Garden Educator at Urban Sprouts

JAMES MURRELL, 2000

PAULO MAZZARELLA, 2000
URSULA CHANSE, 2000
Bronx, NY
Director of Bronx Green-Up and Community Horticulture
New York Botanical Garden

KIM ALLEN, 2005-2006

JOY MOORE, 2007
Berkley, CA
Food justice activist, key player in reforming school lunches in Berkeley Unified School District, co-founded Farm Fresh Choice of the Ecology Center, Commissioner for the City of Berkeley on the Sugar Sweetened Beverage Product Panel of Experts (Soda Tax), currently teaching garden based nutrition to high school students and their families in Berkeley.
morejoy00@gmail.com

KAREN WASHINGTON, 2008
New York, NY
A member of La Familia Verde Garden Coalition, she launched City Farms Markets, bringing garden grown and farm fresh vegetables to her neighborhood. Latest project, is collaborating and farming with Rise & Root Farm.
www.riseandrootfarm.com/karen-washington/
DAVID PECUSA, 2009
AZ
Hopi Native a generational dryland farmer, works with Navajo and Hopi tribes at local schools to maintain edible gardens in schools.
EVELYN ROSAS, 2010
Austin, TX
ACC Sustainable Agriculture Program and Campus Farm Coordinator
www.continue.austincc.edu/agriculture

MALIN ALEGRIA, 2010
Teacher at Arab International Academy

AILEEN SUZARA, 2011
Berkeley, CA
Youth, community health, traditional foodways
Owner of Sariwa and Filipino Youth Advocates for Justice

DANIEL TRAN, 2011-2012
CA

JONATHAN WU, 2011
CA

MARIA DE LOS ANGELES, 2011
Guatemala City, Guatemala
MATTHEW RAIFORD, 2011
GA
Owner of founder of Gilliard Farms, CASFS Farm to Fork Chef

RACHEL VIGIL, 2011
San Francisco, CA
STEPHANIE LIN, 2011
Los Angeles, CA
Landscape architectural researcher and designer.
stephanieclimbstrees@gmail.com
BRENDA L. QUINTERO, 2012-2013
Los Angeles, CA
Edible/Sustainable Landscape Designer, Artist, Urban Ag. Instructor, activist in environmental stewardship, hand-made crafter, primitive skills, healer and free-spirit!

NEIL THAPAR, 2012
San Francisco, CA

SUSIE YEO, 2012-2013

VICTORIA GUTIERREZ, 2012
Los Angeles, CA
Urban Gardener, Activist
ILEANA MAR, 2013
San Francisco, CA
Program Director for San Francisco based food justice nonprofit, Urban Sprouts
ileana.herreravasquez@gmail.com
www.urbansprouts.org

JAMES NAKAHARA, 2013
Santa Cruz, CA
Organic Farmer & Surfer.

HETTY CHIN, 2014
Oakland, CA
Holistic health, flora & fauna, natural crafts affiliated with:
Trowbridge Flowers & Vegetable Farm, Trees For Oakland

KATINA CASTILLO, 2014
Ojai, CA
Restorative justice, prison justice, liberation psychology,
Training consultant, Equitable Food Initiative
LEO ORLEANS, 2014-2015
Oakland, CA
Greenhouse management, food justice, youth education
Youth Program Manager, Oakland Sol Farm

JAMES HARRIS (JAMIE), 2015
Fresno, CA
MAYA MARIE S., 2015
Brooklyn,NY
Urban Farmer/Food Education Coordinator at KCC Urban Farm
instagram.com/mayamariez
SUNYOUNG YANG, 2015
Trenton, NJ
TINA L. SINGLETON, 2015
Charleston, SC
Founder, Transformation Table LLC
www.facebook.com/transformationtable/
www.transformationtable.com (By September 28, 2017)

TRAVIS JACKSON, 2015
San Francisco, CA
Urban Agriculture instructor at Mission High School.

EDGAR XOCHITL, 2015-2016
San Francisco, CA
Edible landscaping, artist, urban farmer, greenhouse management, QPOC, Queer Ecology, gravity, disco ball, Flower Bending, epiphytes Decolonial Botany
Social Media: @ecoxicano #Ecoxicano #FlowerBending #DecolonizeYourFlower #GardenCholo
LAURA TURNER-ESSEL, CURRENT STAFF, 2016-present
Santa Cruz, CA
Director of Residential Life and Community, UC Santa Cruz
Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems
lturnere@ucsc.edu
https://casfs.ucsc.edu

ANDRE D'ANJOU, 2016
Santa Cruz, CA

ANH DOAN, 2016
MD

EMILIA CORDERO, 2016
Raleigh, NC
Farm Worker justice, traditional Oaxacan farming

JAS MICHELLE, 2016
Los Angeles, CA
Community food networks, food sovereignty, healing justice, liberation-centered popular education, urban farming.