Community Food Systems Mentor Profile: Bevelyn Afor Ukah
The Community Food Systems Mentorship Program offers Network members the opportunity to work directly with a food systems expert to support their growth, learn best practices, and connect with seasoned food movement leaders.
Bevelyn Afor Ukah, Director of the Committee on Racial Equity at the Center for Environmental Farming Systems, Artist, Justice Educator
Website: www.Afioak.com
About Bevelyn:
Bevelyn Afor Ukah works as a consultant to train youth and adults in building skills that encourage equity, organizational efficiency, cultural connection, and collaboration. She has traveled around the world and has lived in three countries. She is a self-taught artist, developing her practice as a form of inner resilience, hoping that her work inspires others to build their own self and community-love practices. She is a part of the Black Women’s Art Collective of Public Art Practice.
Bevelyn is passionate about discouraging divisiveness and she works with audiences in their journeys to recognize multiple truths. She is moved most when working in multigenerational settings. To her, so much is possible with self-reflection and building true methods of accountability.Bevelyn received her Bachelors in International Studies, Sociology and Anthropology from Guilford College where she was a Bonner Scholar and Multicultural Leadership Scholar. She completed her Masters in Intercultural Service, Leadership and Management (with a concentration on facilitation and social justice).
Bevelyn is the founding consultant of AFI Oak Consulting and the co-founding consultant of the Auralite Collective. She is the Director of the Committee on Racial Equity (CORE) at the Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS). CORE works with community to develop a shared understanding of language, history and analysis on race. She serves on the Transplanting Traditions Community Farm Board, The School for Living Futures Advisory Board, the National Rooted in Community Board and the NC Climate Justice Collective Board.
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Seeking to Mentor
I would like to work with individuals who believe in lifelong learning and are looking to further develop a mindset for growth, while finding joy in the process. I’d be happy to work with new professionals or folks looking to make pivots in how they are going about their current work. I would like to work with food systems (emerging and/or current) leaders who want to center equity in their practices at work and in their personal lives.
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