Sophi (they/them) is a strategist, storyteller, and systems thinker working at the intersections of food justice, abolition, and ecological healing. They serve as the Co-Executive Director at Feed Black Futures, where they lead the organization’s finance, communications, and operations with clarity, rigor, and deep care. Sophi is committed to building liberated infrastructure that centers Black wellness, self-determination, and collective power.

With a background spanning environmental science, public health, grassroots organizing, administrative systems, storytelling and communications, Sophi brings an interdisciplinary lens to every facet of their work. They have served as an environmental scientist, science communicator, farm manager, researcher, web designer, and producer of an agricultural radio show — always centering Black liberation, narrative shift, and just transition.

Sophi believes that the health of ecosystems and communities are inseparable, and that liberation requires the dismantling of extractive systems alongside the cultivation of cooperative, well-organized alternatives. They are a graduate of UC Santa Cruz (Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems) and the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, and a proud alum of The Chisholm Legacy Project’s Black Liberation and Just Transition Institute. Sophi is also a member of the Soulfire Farm Speakers Collective, a Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity (BOLD) 2026 Fellow, and they serve on the board of Ujamaa Farmer Collective.

An artist and deeply curious thinker, Sophi moves through the world with love, precision, and gratitude, building pathways toward solidarity and collective healing.