Sophi Renée Wilmore
Food Sovereignty x Black Liberation x Narrative x Strategy x Art
Who are you?
I’m a strategist, storyteller, artist, and environmental scientist dedicated to building the liberated future we all deserve; a future rooted in Black sovereignty, ecological harmony, and collective care.
My work sits at the intersection of food systems, Black liberation, and abolition. I approach the world’s most urgent challenges: climate change, global inequity, land dispossession, and public health, through the lens of agriculture, because food systems are the foundation of our successful collectives. They shape how communities thrive and struggle, how power is distributed, and how our relationships to the land and each other are either severed or strengthened.
Transforming systems starts with transforming the stories we tell ourselves and each other.
What do you do?
As Co-Executive Director of Feed Black Futures, I lead a Black food sovereignty and abolitionist organization that serves California communities through food access, political education, and self-determination.
Our work begins with the belief that healing our relationship to food and land is essential to Black liberation. At FBF, I lead our organizational strategy, finance, communications, and operations; building and strengthening the systems we need to live out our values every day.
Where’ve you been?
Find me talking about intersectional environmentalism in a short film titled “Black Like Plastic” created by the Los Padres Forest Watch and the Sea League.
Much of my work is in science communication and research reports. Find some of my sample technical writing here and refer the Upcycled Certified™ Standard v2 that I coauthored and designed.
Listen to my Food Chain Radio episode “Escaping the Trap of History” where I interviewed Dr. Gail Myers and Will Scott Jr. about the Black American connection to agriculture.
I led the design process for the Feed Black Futures website in partnership with Design Action Collective, including all of our website content and styling. I also Co-Produced all of the video content for Feed Black Futures, alongside Mathew Warren Ramirez, you can find my work on our website.
Read my most recent op-ed from Shareable!
