Fatuma Emmad (she, hers) is the co-founder and director of Frontline Farming. She previously worked as the Director of Urban Farms for Groundwork Denver, is an adjunct Professor at Regis University in the Community Food Systems Minor and is the owner of Bountiful By Design (a sustainable high end landscape company). Fatuma was born in Denver and raised in Denver and Ethiopia. Fatuma has worked farming organic and heirloom vegetables on her own acreage as part of a land co-op, setting up farms for restaurants, and as farm manager for multi acre community farms in Milwaukee and Denver. Before becoming a farmer, Fatuma was a political scientist who engaged in issues affecting marginalized farming communities such as the push for genetically modified seeds across Sub-Saharan Africa. She believes in resistance by the world’s land caretakers to single solutions for crop productivity and seeks to work on re-framing ideas of food security. Fatuma has been certified and teaching yoga since 2004, is a graduate of the Center for Agriculture and Ecology at the University of Santa Cruz, and a member of the Denver Sustainable Food Council.
“I am excited to grow with a group of people who face the same challenges I do in working for social change in Colorado. I believe there is strength in unity.“