Field Meridians is planting seeds𓂨 for a public food forest𓇗¹ in central Brooklyn².

LinYee Yuan is an educator, editor, and cultural organizer living on the unceded land of Brooklyn in Lenapehoking. Her practice is rooted in conspiring with human and more-than-human neighbors to build relational architectures for liberation.

Kristi Huynh is a graphic designer and art director interested in storytelling through imagery for cultural institutions. She is currently based in Los Angeles, where she is developing Viet Archive and building mechanical keyboards in her downtime.

Orla Keating-Beer is an artist, writer, and program organizer raised in Brooklyn where she now lives and works. Her practice, expressed through sculpture, food, workshops, and events, is rooted at the intersections of art, design, food justice, and ecology.

Mariam Osman is an artist, researcher, earth devotee, and human ecology student at Columbia University.

Jaylen Strong is a poet-worker, librarian curator, elegiac archivist, friend (to those who are his friends), and knows his enemies well.

Isabel Ling is a writer, editor, and cultural critic based in New York City.

Ludwig Hurtado is a writer, filmmaker, and multimedia artist. He’s the founder and editor-in-chief of PLAY, a queer food and art mutual aid project, and an editor at The Nation.

Alice Grandoit-Šutka is a research-based designer, host, and publisher. She is co-founder of Deem Journal, an award-winning media platform exploring design as social practice and currently the director of the Public Discourse program at re:arc institute, a philanthropic organization supporting architectures of planetary well-being.

Angel Dimayuga is a Los Angeles- and NYC-based transdisciplinary culinary artist and cultural creative producer who creates ephemeral experiences as social praxis. A critically acclaimed chef, they blend conceptual and sensory approaches in food, art, theater, tech, nightlife, and community spaces.

Amel Monsur is a Group Creative Director at Apple. Amel's background is at the intersection of fashion, music and news, as the former creative director for the artist Prince & The New Power Generation, and alumni of the Al Jazeera News network.

Asmeret Berhe-Lumax is a passionate advocate for food justice and a driving force in creating positive change through community-driven initiatives. As the catalyst behind One Love Community Fridge, she has pioneered efforts to rescue surplus food and provide access to nutritious meals for food-insecure communities.

Nina F. Ichikawa is a fourth-generation descendant of Asian American family farmers in Northern California. Most recently, she served as Executive Director and before that, Policy Director for the Berkeley Food Institute, an interdisciplinary research and action center on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley.

Dr. Suzanne Pierre is a Haitian and Indian ecosystems ecologist and biogeochemist, a writer, and transformer of social systems. She is the founder and executive director of the Critical Ecology Lab, a research and social change organization creating new methods and spaces for communities with scientific and cultural knowledge to destabilize oppressive systems and fight back against escalating social and planetary disaster.