Thursday, November 21, 2024

Elizabeth Gabriel has decades of experience in nonprofit leadership, food justice, and sustainable farming. In her six years at Groundswell Center for Local Food & Farming, she directed the organization to be a leader among white-led farmer training organizations integrating equity into their work. As founding director of Common Good City Farm, she transformed a baseball field into a productive urban farm and grew the nonprofit from the ground up. She is passionate about food production, equitable food access, land sovereignty and collaboration. Elizabeth is a graduate of multiple anti-racism trainings including several by Soul Fire Farm, is a member of the Soul Fire Farm Speakers Collective, facilitates Talking Circles on Race & Racism and holds a dual MA from American University. She is an organizational equity consultant, works for the Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA), and runs an agroforestry farm with her family in the Finger Lakes, on land originally stewarded by the Gayogo̱hó:nǫ Indigenous people and who still reside here today south of and surrounding Cayuga Lake.