Our Team

  • Christa Núñez is an African American entrepreneur, researcher, agriculture educator, social justice practitioner, and storyteller. She focuses her work on creating cooperative land governance models and equitable food systems with African diaspora communities. As a facilitator for change in the realm of narrative building, education, and food justice, she collaborates with stakeholders across multicultural, multigenerational, and interdisciplinary lines, cooperating primarily on projects with children and families.

  • Davi Mozie has been a noteworthy leader in the world of organizational leadership and development and community organizing and engagement for over thirty years.

    In addition to many other titles, Davi is the Founding Director of International Jumper United Mentoring Program (I-JUMP). Davi uses the sport of jump rope to promote youth leadership development, cultivate relationships across cultures, and promote safe and respectful relationships. Davi also trains youth-serving professionals to use jump rope as an engagement tool to teach various academic and life skill topics.

  • Pete Núñez was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in Harlem, NY. He developed a love for the outdoors while living in the beautiful Redwood Forest of Northern California and enjoys working the land and producing good food for the community. As a behaviorist, he loves working with young people in all phases of their development and enjoys supporting pathways to healthy communication and relationship-building.

  • Bio coming soon!

  • For more than 25 years, Jay Smith has been a food justice advocate, working in and with organizations challenging food apartheid. As a community activist, he helped to start and steward community gardens in NYC and Ithaca to promote urban agriculture, beekeeping, and ecological awareness. Jay supports the cultivation of knowledge among people of color about farming and growing food independently of the ecologically destructive, food apartheid agricultural system. He works with Christa and Pete Núñez to promote the Quarter Acre for the People project of building intentional communities for historically marginalized people of color.

  • Michelle co-leads the Gayogo̱hó:nǫʼ Learning Project with Stephen Henhawk where she leads Gayogo̱hó:nǫʼ Language and Education. She is the Administrator for Rhize Up Community Farm where she focuses on developing cooperative structures that integrate the experience of community members of various cultures.