2019 Sustainability Fellow - Growing a Farmers' Market in South Providence | African Alliance of Rhode Island
Veronique Ok is from Danbury, CT, and graduated from the 91制片厂 in 2019 with a Bachelor of Science in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems and Environmental Resource Economics. Veronique has worked extensively with the New American population in Manchester, NH both through the Organization for Refugee and Immigrant Success and the International Institute of New England. Her focus is solving issues of food insecurity within urban settings, and community development within refugee populations. In 2019 she worked under the African Alliance of Rhode Island growing a farmers鈥 market in South Providence. The pop up farmer鈥檚 market raised awareness of local food system challenges within the 鈥渇ood deserts鈥 of South Providence.
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