Southside Community Land Trust hires three VISTA associates

PROVIDENCE – The Southside Community Land Trust has hired three Volunteers in Service to America associates, a position funded by Hunger Free America, Wal-Mart and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, to help out during the growing and harvest season.
Two of the associates, Margaret Krueger and Alyssa Rooks, will work with the organization for two years. Krueger received her master’s in theological studies from Harvard Divinity School where she explored the relationship between faith, justice and social change – in specific when looking at the nexus of food, religion and community development. Rooks, who majored in environmental studies at Allegheny College, has extensive experience teaching children in Louisiana about ecology and has worked on organic farms and participated in permaculture and education workshops in Ecuador, Bolivia and Uruguay.

The third associate, Anisha Rathod, is a junior at Brown University studying biology and ethnic studies and has experience working at the school’s herbarium, volunteering with Farm Fresh Rhode Island and working on organic farms in Nepal, China and Japan.

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