Neshima Vitale-Penniman (they/she), Assistant Farm Manager, is part of the founding Soul Fire farm-ily and collaborates with a dedicated team to cultivate food sovereignty through regenerative Afro-Indigenous agrarian practice, subsidized distribution of life-giving food for folks living under food apartheid, and BIPOC farmer training programs, among other efforts. As a child of treetops, spring peepers, and thunderstorms, and a student of the Earth and ancestors, Neshima’s intersectional identities as a queer multiracial Black-Indigenous-Jewish Ifa-practitioner inform their commitment to justice and liberation for the lands, waters, peoples, and beyond-human kin of this Earth. During their undergraduate years at Brown University, Neshima’s studies focussed on environmental justice (EJ) and conservation science, while their leadership and advocacy work centered EJ education for BIPOC community and global anti-imperialist struggle. Beyond farming, Neshima’s roles at Soul Fire include program facilitation, SOULstice aerial silks performance, natural building, publication editing, photography, and food preservation – and they delight in it all!