Raven Amandla

(all pronouns with respek)

FOUNDER & VISIONARY

Raven is a New Haven native, Community & Cultural Organizer, creative, and hospitality professional. They come from a long lineage of African American & Jamaican farmers and are inspired by the activism and love of their great-grandparents, grandmothers and mother. Their food justice lens has also been shaped by experiencing food apartheid most of their life and working in the hospitality/food & beverage media industries, where they noticed a common trend; the projection of false perfection and erasure of global majority culinarians, Black, Indigenous and People of Color narratives, and recognition of BIPOC’s contributions to the culinary world. Raven’s commitment to food sovereignty is rooted in my core belief that real food, as well as safe, healthy environments and climate resiliency, are absolutely essential for all living beings and the earth.

Raven is an alumna of Soul Fire Farm’s Farmer Immersion Program and participated as a member of the Kitchen Team for the first BIPOC FIRE immersion facilitated in Spanish. They are also a proud member of the Northeast Farmers of Color Network (NEFOC).