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Amy is a lawyer, strategist, advocate and non-profit leader with more than two decades fighting  for greater equity as a public defender, in public policy and implementing proven strategies to address policies and issues harming the poorest and most marginalized among us. Having been raised in the mountains of Southwest Virginia and with deep roots to the Catskills and the town of Hamden where her father grew up on a dairy farm, Amy and her husband Andrew bought and re-opened the Hamden General Store in May of 2021. When not in Delaware County, Amy resides in NYC with her husband and two children. Amy is currently the Director of Innovation and Strategic Initiatives at The Bronx Defenders, providing strategic advice and leadership to the organization in order to maximize impact, increase support, and elevate the innovative justice work of the organization. Previously, Amy was the Deputy Director of the National Network for Safe Communities and the Deputy Director at The Center for An Urban Future. She was also an Equal Justice Works fellow and staff attorney at Bronx Defenders, a pro se law clerk for the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, and a litigation associate at O’Melveny & Myers. Amy holds a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a B.A. from the University of Virginia.

Bari is a young farmer, small business owner, community organizer, advocate, educator and lifetime student. At SUNY Geneseo, Bari studied Philosophy and Environmental Studies with a focus on agricultural ethics. There, she co-founded the Student Coalition for Migrant Workers and participated in grassroots organizing for farmworker rights.

Learning from mentors, Bari developed a deep passion for and knowledge of organics and permaculture at Heartstone Organic Farm (Dansville, NY), A Way of Life Farm (Bostic, NC) and Frost Valley YMCA Farm (Claryville, NY). Through the Multinational Exchange for Sustainable Agriculture's (MESA) Applied Agroecology course, Bari learned about traditional, indigenous and peasant farming systems. She also developed a knowledge of local food procurement and preparation by working part-time as a prep cook at the Neversink General Store (Claryville, NY) and on the Early Bird Cookery (Callicoon, NY) catering team.

Bari is a member of National Young Farmers Coalition and is the Women's Affinity Representative of the organization's Federal Policy Committee. Additionally, Bari is the Farmer Representative on Northeast SARE's Executive Committee and has served on New England Grassroots Environmental Fund's Grantmaking Committee. Bari is also on the Board of Directors of Unadilla Community Farm and previously of the Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute.

Currently, Bari works with Providence Farm Collective and Cornell Cooperative Extension/TasteNY while her ecological, human scale farm, Healing Poem Farm, grows with the support of her partner, Sean, family and friends.

Dr. Julian L. Watkins identifies as a queer multi-ethnic Black intellectual and healer, who lives on Manhattan’s lower east side. He has deep familial roots in North America and Latin America. Dr. Watkins finds strength in these multiple marginalized identities and brings an intersectional world view, rich diasporic culture, and healing traditions to his work.

He is an Internal Medicine trained physician and public health practitioner at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. He serves as a Health Equity Advisor in the agency’s Center for Health Equity and Community Wellness, supporting health equity efforts across the city and providing strategic support for emergent public health responses. He works to empower communities across the five boroughs through creative partnership building, honest discussion and information sharing on community health, health justice, recovery, and the ongoing COVID pandemic.  

Outside of the Health Department Dr. Watkins is a partner at BEVERLY’S, a lower Manhattan based art gallery and bar. He is also a Culture of Health Leader, part of a national leadership program supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. A student of social movements and the Black liberatory tradition, he believes radical love is essential to building a new culture of health, for community recovery efforts and collective healing. He’s chosen to move through the world with an ethos of love as an act of resistance in a culture so loveless. He created the People’s Project as an open invitation for collaboration and engagement. The mission of the People’s project is to engage in a form of deep medicine- to unlearn colonial mindsets, strengthen connections to each other and the natural world, and build community resilience through thoughtful dialogue, the use of emergent strategies and narrative power as we collectively imagine alternative solutions and build new futures.

Sheryll Durrant is an urban farmer, educator, and food justice advocate. She is the Food and Agriculture Coordinator for NY New Roots Program, of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), and has been the Resident Garden Manager at Kelly Street Garden since 2016. Her work has included developing community-based urban agriculture projects, and providing expertise and technical assistance for gardens within supportive housing developments. She currently serves as Board President for Just Food and is the New York City Farm Service Agency Urban County Committee Chairperson. Sheryll has led workshops and spoken on issues related to urban agriculture for many key organizations, and was part of the 2019-2020 HEAL School of Political Leadership. As a former Design Trust fellow for the Farming Concrete project, she is now responsible for communications and outreach for the data collection platform that helps urban farmers and gardeners measure their impact. Previously, Sheryll spent over 20 years in corporate and institutional marketing.

Rebecca Morgan has spent her career between international human rights projects, farming, and food system development work. Her international work included consulting with Human Rights Watch in Kosovo and with the United Nations Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Guatemala. In food system work she led the National Immigrant and Refugee Farmer Initiative for Heifer International’s USA Country Program prior to being the executive director for the Center for Agricultural Development and Entrepreneurship in New York State. Rebecca has been growing food her whole life and currently lives in Upstate New York.

Yuka C. Honda is a Japanese composer/musician and producer residing in New York City. She is best known for the band Cibo Matto, which she co-founded with Miho Hatori in 1994 and in which Honda created a unique one-man band sound by triggering samples “live.” She has always been supportive of hyper-local food systems.

Myers Produce is a regional distributor based out of hubs in New York City, Western Massachusetts, and Northern Vermont. We have been in operation since 2013. We offer our regions’ growers & producers two services: distribution and freight.

Essex Food Hub's Mission is to support & strengthen our local food system.

Supporting local food since 2015: Incubated at the local Grange Hall down the road, we have expanded to offer a variety of services to area growers and producers, including delivery, commercial kitchen rentals, co-packing services, and frozen, cold and dry storage capacity to help extend the Northeast region's short growing season.

We now cover over 2,100 miles each week delivering local food up and down the I-87 corridor.

Pandemic Response: Inspired by partnerships that grew out of our emergency food delivery response to COVID-19, a majority of the Hub's programming has shifted to focus on food access and security. We want to help ensure EVERYONE has an opportunity to eat the highest quality food. If we can support our neighbors in need and offer local farmers an opportunity to grow their revenue streams alongside their crops, we know we're having a good day.

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New York City’s preeminent environmental nonprofit, working to improve quality of life for residents through programs that transform communities block by block and empower all New Yorkers to secure a clean and healthy environment for future generations.