Co-Founding Director
People Power Solar Cooperative

Brandi Mack, co-founding Director of People Power Solar Cooperative, and the National Director of the Butterfly Movement (dedicated to providing personal/professional development for black women and girls), is also Director of Community Engagement with Designing Justice+Designing Spaces (an Oakland-based architecture and real estate development non-profit working to end mass incarceration), and on the faculty of Biomimicry for Social Innovation’s “Living Systems Leadership” retreat for women, is also a holistic health educator, therapeutic massage therapist, permaculture designer, living systems thought leader, and mother of three daughters.

Community Organizer and Plant-Medicine Practitioner

Alondra Aragon, a mother, community organizer, land steward, youth advocate and plant-medicine practitioner born and raised in unceded Yelamu Ohlone Ramaytush territory, has dedicated the past decade to working in the environmental and youth justice sectors. The first full-time staff employee of I Am Why, Alondra is closely involved in the stewarding of Hummingbird Farm in San Francisco’s Excelsior neighborhood.

Co-Founder
Black Earth Farms

Minkah Smith, a community organizer and artist from South Central Los Angeles, is co-founder of Black Earth Farms and Program Coordinator for Sankofa Gardens, projects that are intended to support collaborative processes focused on reclaiming land to build wellness and help provide healthy food to communities of color from the East Bay to LA.