Kolu zigbi biography

Kolu Zigbi – the first child of Charlie and Ersilia Crawford – was born on April 30, 1962.
I've worked in philanthropy for over twenty years and am building my own consulting company.
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Socially Just and Ecologically Sustainable Food System

The US food system needs to be transformed. It generates one fifth of the nation's jobs but pays the least of all sectors of the economy, with occupations such as farm work exempt from important labor protections. Over 40% of the nation's land is dedicated to agriculture, but too much of it subject to soil erosion and treated with toxic chemicals that pollute groundwater and cause a dead zone of over 8,000 square miles in the Gulf of Mexico. Its abundant harvests are primarily used to produce oils, high fructose corn syrup and processed foods that are implicated in half of all Americans suffering from one or more forms of chronic diet-related disease.

To simultaneously invest in improving public health, protecting our fragile environment, and providing fair working conditions and wages, invest in one of these national alliances and networks working to transform the food system, and invest in their grassroots affiliates and member organizations as well. These groups aggregate grassroots power to influence policy makers, promo

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Zigbi, Kolu

Although Zigbi dreamed of returning to Bruyema to work with clan members, she also believed she could contribute more by gaining work experience in her hometown, New York City. In 1985 Zigbi returned to New York to work as a childcare worker in a residential drug treatment program. She was promoted to group therapist and later Director of Admissions, but the longer she stayed with the program, the more critical she became of its underlying ideology. She disagreed with the exclusive focus on individual responsibility as the sole mechanism for change. She thought there should also be a focus on collective action to influence change at the community level.

As her disenchantment grew, she explored the idea of a career change. She decided to study regional planning to enhance her understanding of how resources and policies dictated opportunities available to individuals and communities. She completed a master’s in city and Regional Planning at Cornell University in 1990. While she pursued graduate studies, villages in Bruyema were burned by political dissidents, and the

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I seek to invest time, talent and treasure so that people who are closest to the ground gain control of land, capital and resources. I’ve worked in philanthropy for over twenty years and am building my own consulting company. While my particular area of expertise is food systems, I am broadly interested in equitable development that engages the rural urban dynamic to promote health and well-being. My aspiration is to work more in Africa and her Diaspora.

I am becoming a vocal and active member of my Liberian clan. Since 2013 my clan has fought government concessions. 44,444 hectares of our land – part of the last remaining Upper Guinea Rain forest – is subject to irresponsible logging by Sing Africa. We want logging to stop until monitoring and transparency protocols are instituted and promised benefits and fees to workers and the clan materialize. With that, our clan can maintain a road network, grow a solar grid, improve health care and educational facilities, and providing Internet. I am also developing a solar project with a network of community colleges throug