East New York Farms! Staff

Sarah (Sol) Bacio
Assistant Project Director 
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Sol is originally from Los Angeles and moved to NY in 2017 to pursue a bachelors in Public Health and Sociology from New York University. Sol’s introduction to food justice was in 2020 when they co-founded the Los Angeles-based mutual aid collective, Farm2Power, which continues to distribute free CSA produce boxes to Angelinos in need of food support. After realizing their passion for food justice and community organizing, Sol began exploring the urban agriculture field and is a recent graduate of the New Roots Horticulture Urban Farm and Garden Training fellowship. Sol is excited to be a part of the important work at ENYF and hopes to continue learning and connecting with the ENY community!

 

Sra Feigelman
Compost Program Manager
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Sra is the Compost Program Manager at East New York Farms! Sra has always been deeply rooted in food and the natural world, which led them to positions in urban and rural agriculture, restaurants and food systems, and to a Bachelor's Degree in Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont. Sra returned home to New Jersey to reconnect with the food justice movements in the tri-state area. After teaching food and garden education at an elementary school in Paterson, NJ and managing marketing, outreach, and a community garden for an urban farm in Morristown, NJ, Sra came to East New York Farms to coordinate their compost operations. Sra is looking forward to helping ENYF's community-based compost program grow, and to deepening connections with the East New York community.

 

Jesse Miller
Spring Creek Garden Educator
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Jesse is the Garden Educator for ENYF! and will be primarily working with the community at Spring Creek Educational Garden.  Jesse is originally from Los Angeles, but he moved to the east coast in 2018. With a Bachelor’s Degree in Geoscience from Brown University, he is passionate about growing beautiful food, learning about the environment and collecting rocks! Jesse has worked on several farms in the past including organic vegetables farms, a conventional corn farm in Illinois and a maple syrup farm in Pennsylvania.  He is excited to bring his passions for growing good food and improving STEM education to his position at ENYF!

Tiana Rainford
Project Director
(718) 649-7979 ext 12
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Tiana is a CUNY Brooklyn College graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Food and Nutrition Studies. Her interests in food sustainability and how food politics and culture affect one's access to preventative health care grew during her academic studies. She wanted to find find a way to use her knowledge of food and nutrition to directly benefit her community of  East New York. With ENYF, she combines her devotion to food justice in her community with her extensive knowledge in nutrition sciences to encourage food security in East New York.

 

Alec Chi
Community Gardens Organizer
(718) 649-7979 ext 15
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Alec was born and raised in Houston, Texas, and moved to Flatbush to study nutrition at Brooklyn College. He joined ENYF through the CUNY Food Justice Leadership Fellowship. Prior to that, he was cooking in restaurants and apprenticing at organic farms. Alec's love for food has brought him from the foodservice industry to farms to ENYF where he is currently assisting with community organizing and strengthening their autonomy by growing food through restorative and regenerative agriculture.

 

Alexx Caceres

UCC Youth Farm Manager
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Alexx Caceres (They/Them) is a land steward, artist, and animal lover born and raised in East New York, Brooklyn, with ancestral roots in Honduras.  Alexx's journey in reconnecting to land and beings across the ecosystem has led them graduate from Farm School NYC's Citywide Certificate Program, apprentice at Hattie Carthan Community Garden & Market, and become an alumni of Rocksteady Farm's queer farmer-centered Pollinate Training Program. Alexx is a seed keeper with Reclaim Seed NYC & a consultant with Cultivemos Queer Farmer Cohort with National Young Farmers Coalition. Their path continues as they steward the land at East New York Farm's UCC Youth Farm site where they're currently the Farm Manager. Some of Alexx's other passions include rescuing animals, painting, and making plant medicine such as salves and tinctures.

 

Elli Sol Strich
Market Manager & Outreach Coordinator
(718) 649-7979 ext 14
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Elli Sol is from Albany, New York, where she saw the importance and impact of community activism growing up. She studied Environmental Studies and Food Systems at Tufts University, while working for environmental education and food distribution efforts in the Boston area. Prior to joining ENYF, Elli Sol was working on a coffee and plantain farm in Colombia, where she was connecting with her ethnicity and family, and learning about regenerative agriculture. Elli Sol is grateful to work with everyone at ENYF, and she is excited to learn alongside and from the ENY community!