Devon Hamilton Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, California, United States

Grillin' For The People offers various food, gardening, volunteer, and education services centering barbecued meats and vegan specialties, Southern Black cuisine, and flavors across the African Diaspora.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Cook at the restaurant Post & Beam, located in the Crenshaw District of Los Angeles.

Remote

Coordinator for the National Healthy Soils Policy Network (NHSPN), supporting the internal and external activities of the network.NHSPN is a group of farmer-centered organizations that advocate for state and federal policies on behalf of sustainable, organic, beginning, and/or family farmers.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Sous Chef at the restaurant Beach and Brew, located in Venice Los Angeles.

Venice - Los Angeles, CA

Sous Chef at the restaurant Neighbor, located in Venice Los Angeles.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Assisted with the general operations for CSU's Village Market Place (South Central LA's first organic marketplace), Expo Mini-Farm, and multiple community programs run through our Paul Robeson Community Wellness Center.
• Co-developed and facilitated online/in-person programming and outreach materials for our Garden Gateway nutrition and gardening workshops.
• Managed various admin tasks and record keeping, including co-writing multiple grants, reports, and facilitating funder/partner communications.
• Managed two community food collection and support programs for dozens of community food producers.
• Co-led the development and execution of our Green Savings Program, in partnership with LADWP.
• Served as an Assistant Store Manager for the Village Market Place.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

• Assisted in work to advance federal, state, and local sustainable agriculture and food system policies and programs.
• Co-led the development of the GULFS (Growing Urban Leaders in Food Systems) Program, co-creating content to teach youth of color in Madison and Milwaukee about food justice and the food system.
• Led the plan development and authoring of an EPA aligned 9 Key Element Plan in collaboration with local producers, agriculture agents, and the Wisconsin DNR in two Iowa County sub-watersheds.
• Served as the Co-Chair of the Diversity Committee and a board representative of the Organizational Council for NSAC (National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition).
• Collaborated with other organizations, research groups, and programs around various initiatives on soil heath and water quality in Wisconsin.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

• Developed and led youth workshops in partnership with the Dane County Juvenile Detention Center and Juvenile Shelter Home.
• Created an “Art with Plants” workshop that teaches youth about urban growing and plant care through making string gardens.
• Created multiple cooking workshops, teaching youth about seasonal, nutritious, and culturally relevant meal planning.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

• Instructed for the PEOPLE program, a precollege pipeline for low-income students and students of color, offering full-tuition scholarships to UW upon program completion.
• Served a summer as the instructor of the middle school You are What You Eat class, and served two summers as the instructor of the high school Food Systems class.
• Developed curricula to introduce students to the food system, instructing lessons that offered them hands-on experiences that were engaging, relatable, and constructively challenging.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

• Served as an intern for UW Extension to assess community needs around various issue areas, working in collaboration with community partners to creatively address them.
• Assisted in teaching horticultural practices and food systems issues in two community youth gardens.
• Co-developed and led a community garden workshop series.
• Assisted in teaching a youth cohort in a public health project hosted by Centro Hispano, engaging youth of color in the outdoors. Additionally, facilitated the design and build process of a youth developed natural.

Wrote, co-edited, and published creative blog posts on social justice related material within the Young People For (YP4) fellowship values, in addition to participating in monthly peer reviews to the fellowship’s national blog.

Landscape Studies, Landscape Architecture

Activities and Societies: Leadership Team Member of the Multicultural Student Coalition (MCSC) -- President of Gama Theta Chapter of.

Feng-Shui And Chinese Culture And Design