The Team
Members of the Seeds to Soil Collective
Michelle V. Jackson
Michelle Jackson designs and manages multi-stakeholder environmental projects. Her work is supported by over 20 years as a content producer for global agencies and brands, a decade of work as a community gardener in the Carrie McCracken TRUCE Community Garden in Harlem, and an MS in conflict resolution.
David Hecht
David Hecht lives to be of unexpected yet crucial service to family, friends, colleagues, strangers, and guests. His practice sits at the intersection of architecture, cybernetics, libraries, and organizing.
Jerone Hsu
Jerone is an earthling cultivating practices of service at the intersection of creativity, community, and enterprise. He delights in designing, making, and/or growing stuff. On the Seeds to Soil team, he is most often found wearing his "Strategy & Design" hat, his "Tech Support" hat, or his "Amateur Herpetologist/Mycologist/Entomologist" hat.
Qiana Mickie
Qiana Mickie is a New York City-based food systems leader and a speaker that uses food as a driver of enterprise, innovation, and equity. For over 10 years, she has worked on fostering a food-based solidarity economy in the New York region that increases farm viability, healthy food access, and leadership opportunities for small- mid-scale regional farmers, youth, Black, Brown, mixed-income, and other communities of color.
Randi Lauren Klein
Randi Lauren Klein is a social media specialist and street artist who works on projects involving community-building, creativity, and recreational therapy. She has a BA in Communications and Media Studies and a certification in Therapeutic Recreation from Kean University and was an NYC Teaching Fellow through Pace University where she received an MA in Special Education.