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Speaking & Panels
10/27/2023 - Foodie Fridays: Food is Freedom
02/23/2022 - ECOEvenings: Environmental Justice: Where are we now?
01/20/2022 - 2022 HFA MLK Serve-A-Thon: Raising Up Community Voices
10/28/2021 - Moderator, Transforming Food Systems through Advocacy: Community Leadership in Policy Change
9/26/2021 - Speaking @ Soup Church
Television & Publications
02/18/2022 - Three Mothers Share About The Child Tax Credit and How it Has Helped Their Families
10/27/2021 - Vanessa Pierre: The Expanded Child Tax Credit Gives Communities License to Hope
10/14/2021 - Keynote Speech, Maryland Community Action Partnership Conference - Oceans of Opportunity
6/1/2021 - Grassroots Advocacy on CommUNITY Green Space: Mastering the Art of CommUNITY Collaboration
5/13/2021 - IG Live with Jimeka Jones - Gardening & Faith
4/30/2021 - Food Sovereignty Panel Discussion hosted by Montgomery County Food Council
Press Releases & Announcements
01/04/2022 - Vanessa Pierre joins as a new member of the Montgomery County Food Council
6/4/2021 - ‘Teach a man to fish’ as a solution to rising food insecurity rates in Montgomery County
09/01/2021 - Founder, Vanessa Pierre joins Community Action Agency as an ambassador for the 2021-22 Community Advocacy Institute
07/01/2021 - Founder, Vanessa Pierre joins the Board of Crossroads Community Food Network
Press Coverage
Mother who received Child Tax Credit payment: 'That's my grocery budget'
"We can start to make plans." Vanessa Pierre, a mother who received the Child Tax Credit payment for her children, tells Lawrence O'Donnell she was able to "exhale" because now she can start saving for a home. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, a longtime advocate of the Child Tax Credit, says this is a "lifeline to the middle class" and a historic investment to reduce child poverty. Watch here
Washington Gardener
The mission for me is and will always be to empower minorities in my community to take back their lives. How can we expect families experiencing food insecurity to worry about community issues, become involved, and become advocates? The only concern for those in this position is, where is the next meal coming from? Dinner may be covered, but what about breakfast? Having to make such a decision and living in a constant state of anxiety prevents real change from happening anywhere else. If we can give these families a bit of control back into their lives through gardening and homesteading, we can put more money in their pockets and clear some of their headspace for brighter conversations. Continue to read here…
NPR / The DCist
Vanessa Pierre walks around her backyard apologizing. It’s a mess, she says. Come back in the summer when the garden will be in full bloom, and there will be lush flowers and vegetables growing along the trellises that rise from neat wooden boxes packed with compost. But even as she apologizes for what she has little control over — it’s late fall and harvesting season is over — it’s clear that she has more planted in her yard than the average home gardener.
At her home in White Oak, a majority-Black neighborhood near Silver Spring, Pierre grows corn, watermelon, strawberries, garlic, onions, lettuce, cabbage, peppers, flowers, and a long list of herbs for healing teas and medicine. She bought a hoop house on Amazon, where she plans to continue “backyard farming” this winter; she’s constructing six more plant beds so she can donate extra produce to the Manna Food Center, a food advocacy non-profit in Montgomery County. Continue to read more here,
Capital Area Food Bank
Vanessa Pierre has lived in White Oak, a neighborhood in Silver Spring, Maryland, for four years. In that short time, she’s made her mark advocating for access to healthy and affordable food — and the resources to grow it — in her community. She’s among the new members of the CAFB’s Client Leadership Council (CLC), a group of like-minded individuals from across the food bank’s service area taking part in a ten-month advocacy training program aimed at empowering them to serve as effective agents of change in their communities.
A paralegal by trade for over 12 years, Vanessa had begun running her own business by the time she and her three children — now 12, 10, and 5 — made the move to the D.C. area in 2016. Here, she delved deeply into her true passions: backyard gardening, homesteading, and advocacy around food insecurity. Continue to read more here..
Washington Post
Food banks have seen record increases in need even as donations dwindle. In the Washington region, churches have partnered with county officials to distribute food.
1000 Women Strong
Vanessa Pierre is a garden coach, educator, and food activist in the DC Metro area. When she is not performing her functions as being a single mother to three beautiful children and working full time, she runs an organization whose mission is to build strong, self-sufficient, empowered, and healthy minority communities through food & gardening education, demonstration, & advocacy. Read more
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