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Today, I witnessed a trauma that happens every day in Bayview-Hunters Point, San Francisco -- a Superfund toxic site, a modern-day ghetto where people have to travel miles to get fresh vegetables. I ask my students at Willie Brown Jr. Academy, "What is food security?"

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school gardens; A tool for healing in a broken world

JotiShephi 5-25-09

Today I witnessed a trauma. A trauma that happens everyday in the land of Bayview/ Hunters point. I’m not talking about Uganda, but 94124, Bayview/ Hunters Point, San Francisco, one of the liberal hubs of the universe.

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"Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration. We are the ones we have been waiting for." — Hopi elders

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About Me

Bio

From New York, Israel, Brazil..Singer, Dancer, Garden educator, Social/Environmental Justice Advocator, Visionary, Spiritual Guide, Experiencer Playful Extradonaire

Skills and talents
Song, Dance, Improv, Gardening, Teaching
Interests
Change for the better, dropping in. farmers markets, earth activism, local organic food, people watching, Permaculture, ritual feminism, spiral dance, spirituality training
What I'm Reading
Women Wo Run With The Wolves, The Power of Now
What I'm Listening To
Myself, Into the Wild, Brother Where Art Thou, Capoeira Music
Movies I've Seen Recently
Man on a Wire, Whaledreamers

Education

High school
Laguardia (Fame)
College
Queens
Graduate school
Hebrew University
Additional study
Pardes,

Work

Employer
San Francisco School Alliance
Position
Garden Educator