Leah Penniman

Leah Penniman is an American farmer, educator, and food sovereignty activist, and an author. Penniman co-founded Soul Fire Farm in Grafton, New York, and works there as co-director and program manager. The books include Farming While Black, a practical guide to liberation on the land, and Black Earth Wisdom, a set of conversations with Black environmentalists. Penniman also wrote Uprooting Racism, Seeding Sovereignty, a lecture book in the Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures series.