ab banks, Garden Lead for People’s Programs in West Oakland, CA, works to grow food, advance food autonomy for Oakland’s Black population, and ensure that healthy produce gets into the hands of under-resourced community members, including the unhoused. ab also started the (Free) Community Health Clinic, which opened in 2021 to address needs identified during weekly food deliveries, and is the Agroecology and Wellness Coordinator at the Berkeley Food Institute (BFI), which supports outreach, events and academic opportunities at more than 10 urban gardens. Previously, ab was a Just Leader Fellow with the Cooperative Food Empowerment Collective, which seeks to build a cooperative food economy powered by the visionary leadership of Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color.