Amirah Mitchell (she/her) identifies as a black cis-woman. She as been working in agriculture and the food movement for over a dozen years, initially as a teen farm intern, team leader and board member at The Food Project in Boston, MA. She has worked on urban farms in Massachusetts, Georgia and Pennsylvania, including Mill Creek Farm in Philadelphia. Amirah has delivered workshops to community, college and high school audiences on various agroecology topics, including agroforestry, soil ecology, urban gardening, seed-keeping and more. Amirah is a practicing seedkeeper of two years, focusing on food crops of the African diaspora. Currently Amirah is studying horticulture at Temple University and works at Truelove Seeds, a Philadelphia-based seed company.