National Director
The Butterfly Movement

Brandi Mack, Director of Community Engagement with Designing Justice+Designing Spaces (an Oakland-based architecture and real estate development non-profit working to end mass incarceration), Co-National Director for The Butterfly Movement (dedicated to providing personal/professional development for black women and girls), and on the faculty of Biomimicry for Social Innovation’s “Living Systems Leadership” retreat for women, is also a holistic health educator, therapeutic massage therapist, permaculture designer, living systems thought leader, and mother of three daughters.

Coordinator
California Farmer Justice Collaborative

Minkah Smith, a community organizer and multifaceted artist from South Central Los Angeles, currently serves as the Coordinator for the California Farmer Justice Collaborative and as Program Coordinator for Sankofa Gardens, a project of The Butterfly Movement. Her intentions within these organizations include: supporting collaborative processes focused on reclaiming land to build wellness, feeding melanated communities, and enhancing resource networks between urban and rural farmers throughout the state. 

Program Associate and Co-Lead of Communications and Social Media Teams
I Am Why

Alondra Aragon, Program Associate and Co-lead of Communications and Social Media Teams at I Am Why, an organization founded in 2018 to “bring young women and gender expansive activists together with researchers and other partners to increase young activists’ individual and collective power," is a mother, a community organizer, land steward, youth advocate, and plant medicine promoter who has dedicated the past decade to working in the environmental and youth justice sectors. Alondra also works with the Hummingbirds Urban Farm collective.