Books by Leah Penniman

Leah Penniman is a mixed race Haitian-American farmer who has been tending the soil for twenty years and organising for an anti-racist food system for fifteen years. She began with the Food Project in Boston, Massachusetts, and went on to work at Farm School in Athol, Massachusetts, and Many Hands Organic Farm in Barre, Massachusetts. She cofounded Youth Grow urban farm in Worcester, MA. She currently serves as founding executive director of Soul Fire Farm in Grafton, New York, a people-of-colour led project that works to dismantle racism in the food system through a low cost fresh food delivery service for people living under food apartheid, training programmes for Black, Latinx, and Indigenous aspiring farmer-activists, Uprooting Racism training for food justice leaders, and regional-national-international coalition building between farmers of colour advocating for policy shifts and reparations. She has dedicated her life s work to racial justice in the food system and has been recognised by the Soros Equality Fellowship, NYSHealth Emerging Innovator Awards, The Andrew Goodman Foundation Hidden Heroes Award, Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching Program, New Tech Network National Teaching Award, Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching (New York finalist), among others. She has contributed to two published volumes, authored numerous online articles, and given dozens of public talks on the subject.