Empowering Change: Job Training and Food Justice with Erica Allen

Erika Allen is the CEO for Urban Growers Collective, President of Green ERA Educational NFP, and Co-Owner of Green Era Sustainability Partners. Urban Growers Collective is a Black- and women-led non-profit farm in Chicago, Illinois working to build a more just and equitable local food system. They provide hands-on job training and create economic opportunity for youth, and beginner BIPOC farmers.

Urban Growers cultivates eight urban farms on 11 acres of land, predominantly located on Chicago’s South Side.