Join us on Tuesday, October 19 from 12:00-1:30pm for a pre-recorded presentation and live Q&A with Soul Fire Farms' sisters, Naima and Leah Leah Penniman! You can watch presentation remotely or gather at the Stevenson Events Center to watch from 12:00-1:00 and then participate in the 20 minute live Q&A and discussion with Naima on Relationships to Land as Spiritual Activism.

Naima Penniman, offering the live Q&A, is a freedom-forging futurist rooted in her ancestors’ brilliance. She is a devotee of seeds, a soulful story teller, a multidimensional artist, movement builder, medicine grower, healer, and educator. Life-long lover and defender of the Earth, Naima dedicates her creativity and community-building skills to regenerate practices towards planetary interdependence. She serves as the Program Director at SOUL FIRE FARM, where she equips a returning generation of Black, Brown and Indigenous farmers with the skills needed to reclaim leadership in the food system and chart dignified futures in relationship to land.

Leah Penniman, featured in the presentation & author of Farming While Black, is a Black Kreyol farmer, mother, food justice activist who has been tending the soil and organizing anti-racist food system for 25 years. She currently serves as founding co-executive director of Soul Fire Farms in Grafton, New York, a Black & Brown led project that works toward food and land justice.

All COVID-19 Guidelines will be followed at this event.

This a collaborative event of the Stevenson Community Garden, Colleges Nine and Ten CoCurricular Program Office, (H)ACER Programs & the Colleges Nine and Ten Garden.