In 2019 when I began attending classes at Berkeley City College, I was unaware that so much of my education and passion would not just come from an academic environment. Instead, it would be cultivated within my own community, through exposure to mutual aid, imaginations of liberation and the shared desire to rebuild systems that were never meant to help us grow. During my two years in community college I had the time to explore and build my interests in organizing, food sovereignty and basic needs security, worker protections, and abolition. I was lucky enough to continue my education at UC Berkeley where I completed my degree in Anthropology, and Global Poverty and Practice while getting the opportunity to tutor students at San Quentin State Prison and work as an ambassador at the Basic Needs Center Food Pantry! Today, I am grateful to be able to collectivize with others in this center (and beyond) to reshape our food and basic needs pathways - it truly does take a village.
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Food Fellow
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