Gabi is deeply rooted in community, self-love, and practicing holistic sustainability. With a B.A. in Black Studies from UCSB, they have devoted themselves to a life-long commitment in dismantling oppressive systems and institutions, whilst incorporating healing and joy. Growing up in alternative economy structures, they realized how pivotal community is in addressing and meeting the needs of one another through non-extractive exchanges. Having been involved in mutual aid and reparative work founding a local community pantry and holding healing spaces for misogyny-affected individuals, they firmly believe in community and collective power in building a regenerative, sustainable, and liberated future. In a time where meeting basic needs has become tainted with neoliberalism, their project aims to create an autonomous movement of food and land sovereignty through guerilla gardening in urban landscapes with the use of GIS Mapping, social media mobilization, and people-power. They initially got involved in the regenerative communities and food empowerment movement when they got diagnosed with an autoimmune and witnessed the transformative and regenerative abilities within their own body. Connecting with the Earth and with food has been an incredibly healing experience that she is incredibly grateful for. “Although colonialism may have attempted to break my ties to my ancestry I follow the example of a deep-rooted dandelion, where I plant myself firmly in this Earth connecting to my wide network of family and community to continue this cycle of life, healing, joy, and liberation here in this moment and time.”

Email: gabi@cofed.org