Who’s Who at SCLT

  • 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...read more

  • Community Outreach Coordinator, SCLT

    Jazandra Barros

    Community Outreach Coordinator 4012739419

    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...read more

  • 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…...read more

  • 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...read more

  • Craig Demi

    Special Projects Coordinator 401-273-9419 ext. 101

    Having grown up in a steel town situated in one of Pennsylvania’s rich agrarian valleys, Craig knows that communities are built upon their connections to the land....read more

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    Isabelle Izobankiza

    Youth Education & Garden Facilities Manager

    Born in Rwanda to Burundian parents, Isabelle and her family were uprooted when she was 8 due to regional wars. Over the next several years, they moved among Burundi, Congo and Tanzania…...read more

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    Aprielle Kinard

    City Farm Apprentice 401-273-0419

    Aprielle Kinard grew up in a household that valued gardening. After learning about farming and food justice as a City Farm volunteer, she fell in love with the practice....read more

  • SCLT, City Farm, Southside Community Land Trust, Alejandra Mayorga

    Alejandra Mayorga

    City Farm Assistant Steward 401-273-9419

    Alejandra became involved with SCLT while a student at the Met High School. As a City Farm intern she discovered her love for farming, plant life and meaningful work....read more

  • Sebastian Interlandi, SCLT Director of Education and Farmland Access

    Sebastian Interlandi

    Director of Farmland Access & Education 401-273-9419 ext 105

    Sebastian earned a BS in Environmental Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as well as an MS and a PhD...read more

  • Maggie (Krueger) Nowak

    Farms, Food & Youth Coordinator 401-273-9419 ext. 104

    Maggie coordinates our youth employment program and farmers market outreach initiatives. She developed her commitment to an equitable food system...read more

  • 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...read more

  • Sergio Perez, SCLT youth staff, MET school

    Sergio Perez

    Farmers Market Program Associate 4012739419

    Sergio is the most awesome person you’ll ever meet. He grew up near City Farm in Providence’s South Side and started volunteering...read more

  • Margarita Pons, Aggregation Coordinator, SCLT

    Margarita Pons

    Aggregation Coordinator 4012739419

    As a believer in the power of fresh, healthy food, Margarita coordinates customer engagement and marketing for SCLT’s food hub...read more

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    Raffini

    Director of Youth Programs 4012739419 ext. 112

    Raffini has been educating and enlightening young people most of her life. At 16, she founded a preschool at a community center called Start Ahead, Stay Ahead....read more

  • Agnieszka Rosner, SCLT, development

    Agnieszka Rosner

    Development & Administrative Coordinator (401)-273-9419 ext.100

    Agnieszka joined the SCLT team in January 2017. She spent the first few years of her life in an orphanage in Poland where access...read more

  • Shana Santow

    Development Director 401-273-9419 ext. 103

    Shana joined SCLT as development director in 2013. Rooted in the belief that good food is fundamental to building a healthy child,...read more

  • Jarilliz Tavares, SCLT youth staff, MET school

    Jariliz Taveras

    Community Garden Program Associate 401-273-9419

    Jariliz is a graduate of The Met High School. She started at SCLT the summer of 2015 as a youth staff with little knowledge...read more

  • SCLT, Providence College Intern, City Farm

    China Yang

    City Farm Intern 4012739419

    A freshman at Providence College, China comes from a Hmong and Vietnamese family that has been growing food since they arrived in Rhode Island in 1979....read more