Sophi Renée Wilmore (they/them) is a strategist, environmental scientist, writer, and organizational leader whose work explores how communities build the institutions, economies, and relationships necessary for collective liberation. Working at the intersections of food sovereignty, abolition, ecological justice, and solidarity economies, Sophi brings more than a decade of interdisciplinary experience spanning environmental science, agriculture, public health, research, communications, organizing, and organizational strategy.

Sophi currently serves as Co-Executive Director of Feed Black Futures, a Black food sovereignty and abolitionist organization working across California. They lead organizational strategy, finance, communications, and operations, helping build the internal infrastructure and external narrative necessary to move from immediate community care toward long-term Black self-determination, land stewardship, and collective power.

Their career has moved across multiple parts of the food and environmental ecosystem. Sophi co-authored and designed Version 2 of the Upcycled Certified™ Standard, helping translate emerging circular food-economy principles into an actionable industry standard. Their work has also included environmental research and technical writing, farm management, public health, science communication, agricultural radio production, digital strategy, and narrative development. As a writer and communicator, they have published commentary on cooperative economics and Black liberation, interviewed Black agricultural leaders, appeared in the environmental documentary Black Like Plastic, and led the design and narrative development of Feed Black Futures' digital presence.

Across these roles, Sophi has become particularly interested in a central question: how do movements build alternatives without reproducing the extractive systems they are trying to replace? Their current work examines collective governance, decommodification, solidarity economies, land stewardship, and the relationship between organizational infrastructure and political transformation. They believe food systems offer a particularly powerful site for this work because agriculture sits at the convergence of land, labor, ecology, culture, health, and economic power.

Sophi studied Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems at UC Santa Cruz and Environmental Science at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management. They are an alum of The Chisholm Legacy Project’s Black Liberation and Just Transition Institute, a member of the Soul Fire Farm Speakers Collective, a 2026 Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity (BOLD) Fellow, and a board member of Ujamaa Farmer Collective.

An artist and systems thinker, Sophi approaches liberation not only as something to advocate for, but as something to design, practice, govern, and build.