Professional summary
Pierra grows vegetables for a living and grows curious about food systems for fun; though most days it's hard to tell which job is which. Part farmer, part storyteller, she spends her time turning soil and supply chains into stories about who actually grows our food, why they do it, and what it costs them along the way. She's especially drawn to the women behind that work.
Bio
Pierra is a third-generation farmer. She is a fellow of the African Food Fellowship's Food Systems Leadership Program and the Fellowship on Sustainable Development, focusing on leadership, design thinking, team dynamics, and movement building. She studied project planning, coordination, and ethics at the Kenya Institute of Management, with a minor in management.
Her work has appeared in The Continent, POLITICO Europe, Mail & Guardian, Monthly Review Online, Science for the People Magazine, SourceMaterial, Talk Africa, and South Asian Avant-Garde.
Focus
Topics
Horticulture & vegetablesAgroecologyGender inclusionIndigenous & local knowledgeOther: Food Systems Storytelling
Skills
Storytelling & communicationSystems thinkingFacilitation & capacity buildingPartnering & networkingAdvocacy & policy
Collaboration
Looking for
Anyone who wants their food systems stories told, collaborations in vegetable value chains.
Can offer
Food systems communications strategies, storymapping, brand storytelling, a platform for your food systems actions.
African Food Stories
Stage 2: ImplementationAfrican Food Stories is a collaborative multimedia project that moves past the plate to examine the farms, markets, and policies shaping who eats, who doesn't, and why. We feature stories of food system reshapers with and without the fellowship to document the impact they are making.
Desired system change
We are creating a living directory of African food-systems doers. It is kind of a cheat sheet for newcomers, so good ideas can skip the queue and get implemented faster.
Levers of change
Policy and regulationSocio-economic incentives
African Food Fellowship · KE3 · 2023
