Management Team

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  • Margaret DeVos

    Executive Director 401-273-9419 ext. 102

    Margaret believes everyone benefits when we take on troubling issues in our most challenged communities. She came of age in Detroit questioning systems that offer...

  • Community Outreach Coordinator, SCLT

    Jazandra Barros

    Community Partnerships Manager 401-273-9419 EXT. 111

    Jazandra is a native of Providence and a lover of all things food and communal. As SCLT's Community Outreach Coordinator, they will be focusing on our capital...

  • Director of Garden Programs

    Tarshire Battle

    Garden Programs Director 401-273-9419

    Tarshire has combined her interests in art and nature to help people heal from the effects of trauma, mental illness, homelessness and incarceration, and to...

Our Staff & Volunteers

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  • Adamu Makinwa
  • Casper Lundin
  • Thomas Gagné
  • Christina Morgan
  • Markovics Zoltán
  • Jacolien Hendriks
  • Isabela Barboza
  • Juhani Virtanen
  • Phan Châu
  • Kuzey Ünal
  • Juan Rubio
  • Marko Mlakar
  • Kelly Lambert
  • Walid Ahelluc
  • Ernst Graf
  • Lore Smets
  • Camiel de Graaf
  • Ladislau Berindei

  • Margaret DeVos

    Executive Director 401-273-9419 ext. 102

    Margaret believes everyone benefits when we take on troubling issues in our most challenged communities. She came of age in Detroit questioning systems that offer...

  • Community Outreach Coordinator, SCLT

    Jazandra Barros

    Community Partnerships Manager 401-273-9419 EXT. 111

    Jazandra is a native of Providence and a lover of all things food and communal. As SCLT's Community Outreach Coordinator, they will be focusing on our capital...

  • Director of Garden Programs

    Tarshire Battle

    Garden Programs Director 401-273-9419

    Tarshire has combined her interests in art and nature to help people heal from the effects of trauma, mental illness, homelessness and incarceration, and to...

  • Jenny Boone

    Jenny Boone

    Grants & Communications Manager 401-273-9419 ext. 106

    Like many people, Jenny learned about SCLT by attending the annual Plant Sale soon after moving to Providence in the ’90s. She joined the staff in early 2015 after working…...

  • Andrew Cook

    Community Growers Coordinator 401-273-9419 ext. 107

    Andrew came to SCLT after working at local community organizations and on area farms. He counseled students at the Community College of Rhode Island and later taught...

  • Isabelle Izobankiza

    Finance Coordinator 401-273-9419 EXT. 104

    Born to Burundian parents, Isabelle and her family were uprooted due to regional wars, moving among Burundi, Congo and Tanzania before emigrating to Belgium....

  • Indira Miller

    Youth Programs Associate (401)273-9419

    Indira joined SCLT in September 2021, providing environmental education, skills training and mentorship to high school youth in Pawtucket....

  • Rich Pederson

    City Farm Steward 401-273-9419 ext. 110

    Many years ago as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Republic of Kiribati, Rich learned that growing food brings people together. This turns out to be just as true...

  • Bishnu, staff photo

    Bishnu Poudel

    Community Garden Associate 401-273-9419

    Bishnu prepares new properties and maintains existing gardens and urban farms, as well as communicates with growers about resources, workshops and other opportunities....

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    Raffini

    Youth Programs Director 401-273-9419 EXT. 109

    Raffini has been educating young people most of her life. She is a poet, oral historian and playwright, best known as a member of RI Black Storytellers....

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