FSHN Fall Seminar - Ashley Atkinson, MAP, MSW
October 9, 2024 4:00PM - 5:00PM
FSHN Fall 2024 Seminar Series
Ashley Atkinson, MAP, MSW
Co-Director, Farm & Market Operations
Keep Growing Detroit
"Two Decades of Seeding Food Sovereignty in Detroit: Reflections and Aspirations"
Wednesday, October 9, 2024, 4pm-5pm
Join in Person: S. Anthony Hall 1135
Join via Zoom: msu.zoom.us/j/91335396780
Meeting ID: 913 3539 6780 Passcode: FSHN24
Ashley Atkinson is the Co-Director of Keep Growing Detroit, a non-profit organization dedicated to cultivating a food sovereign city where the majority of fruits and vegetables consumed by Detroiters are grown by residents within the city’s limits. Ashley supports the Keep Growing Detroit farm and market
operations team and is responsible for fundraising and organizational learning via research and evaluation. She has worked in the field of community gardening, urban greening, and vacant land reuse for more than 20 years and has provided technical assistance to groups interested in starting or expanding urban agriculture and social entrepreneurship projects all over the world. Her career began in her hometown, Flint, Michigan, where she cofounded the Flint Urban Gardening and Land Use Corporation and developed the Clean and Green program for the Genesee County Land Bank. In 2001, she moved to Detroit to work with Detroit Summer, a program of the Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership and the Detroit Agriculture Network. In 2003 she co-created the Garden Resource Program, in 2009 was an inaugural board member of the Detroit Food Policy Council, and in 2013 co-founded Keep Growing Detroit.
Ashley tends a large family garden with her husband and two dogs in Southwest Detroit. She is a graduate of both Michigan State University and The University of Michigan where she studied International Development, Community Organization, and Environmental/Land Use Planning.
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