Collaboration

“Whether you have a Ph.D. or no D, we’re in this bag together.”

– Fannie Lou Hamer

Collaborative

Grants & Fellowships

“Resilient Farming for Immigrants, Refugees, and the Underserved.” USDA grant RMA24CPT0013922, awarded to Cross Over Community Development. August 2024-February 2025.
“Branding and Marketing the CBU Community Peace Garden: An Interdisciplinary Enterprise.” CBU Advancing Green Education Program: Creating Strategies for CSR through Environmental Entrepreneurism, funded by AutoZone (2022).
“Manifold Wisdom: Embodied Practices of Hope and Resistance in the Mid-South Food Movement.” Memphis Center for Food and Faith (2017-2018).
“Food Justice Cooking Component: The Spirituality and Ethics of Eating.” National Collegiate Honors Council Portz Grant (2014).
“Integrating Religious Diversity into the Religious Studies Curriculum.” Christian Brothers University Faculty-Staff Development Grant (2010).
AAR/Luce Summer Seminar Fellowship in Theologies of Religious Pluralism and Comparative Theology (2009-2010).
Lindsay Young Visiting Fellowship, Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (2009).
“Incarnating Words: Women, Writing, Theology.” Louisville Institute General Grant (2008).

Past Projects

Resilient Urban Farming Program

2024-2025

Project direction and curriculum development for Cross Over Community Development’s Resilient Urban Farming program

Food Sovereignty Study

2018-2019

USDA-funded Food Sovereignty Study for the Delta Health Alliance Community Foods Planning Project

Community Food Planning

2022-2025

North Memphis Community Food Plan proposal and evaluation, in partnership with the Rhodes College Institute for Health Equity and Community Justice.

Program Evaluation

2017-2018

Program evaluation for the Delta EATS school gardens

Editorial Assistance

Editorial assistance for Luce Irigaray (2021-2023); Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza and Francis Fiorenza (1998-1999)

Collaborative Learning

Community engaged teaching and learning (site visits, field trips, internships, and service) through equitable partnerships with community organizations including Grow Memphis, Delta EATS, Church Health, Big Green, Landmark Training, Delta Sol Farm, Green Leaf Learning Farm, Urban Farms, the Mid-South Food Bank, First Congregational Church, Idlewild Presbyterian Church, St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Carpenter Art Garden, Landmark Training Development Company, the Cooper-Young Farmers Market, and The Works.

Conference & Event Planning

Organized and hosted Mid-South Farm to Table Conference at Christian Brothers University (2014, 2019, 2020).
Organized “Up! Farm! A Young Farmers’ Travelling Film Festival” in partnership with the Cooper-Young Community Farmers Market (2016).
Partnerships with Memphis Center for Food and Faith, Grow Memphis, and Small Farms for Big Change to host speakers and workshops at Christian Brothers University (2014-2018).

Community Leadership

Charter Board Member, Memphis Tilth (2015-2020); Chair of Board Development Committee (2017-2019); Secretary (2019-2020).

Board of Directors, Grow Memphis (2013-2016).

Supervised the CBU Campus Community Garden (2018-2024).

School garden leader, Peabody Elementary School (2012-2021).

“We must all learn to live together as brothers or we will all perish together as fools. We are tied together in the single garment of destiny, caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. And whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. For some strange reason I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the way God’s universe is made; this is the way it is structured.”

– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from “Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution” (1968)