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Cristofer A. Izaguirre

Farmer | Educator | Writer

Email info@cristoferconsulting.com
Address
 Brooklyn, NY

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ABOUT

Cris Izaguirre (He/They) is a farmer, educator, writer, trans, queer Nicaraguan immigrant of Afro-Indigenous descent. He is an old school jaded New Yorker with a big laugh, committed to creating spaces that celebrate the brilliance of Queer & Trans, Black, Indigenous, People of Color.

 

For five years he managed an urban farm in Brooklyn, where he taught Black and brown students how to grow food from seed to harvest through a social justice lens. He studied Ecological Horticulture at the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS) at UC Santa Cruz, and apprenticed at Ho’oli permaculture farm in Hawaii. 

Prior to their work in agriculture, they worked for LGBTQ rights organizations including El/La Para Translatinas, Community United Against Violence and Lambda Legal. Outside of paid work, he has directed and produced community theater shows at WOW Theater Cafe, BAAD, Dixon Place and Galapagos Art Space. 


Currently he is a Culture of Health Leadership Institute for Racial Healing (CoHLI) fellow at the National Collaborative for Health Equity and a fiction fellow as part of the inaugural class for Roots. Wounds. Words. Writers’ Retreat for storytellers of color.  He teaches Propagation for Farm School NYC and is a consultant for Transgender Equity Consulting.

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SKILLS & EXPERTISE

  • Cris has taught youth and adults agriculture basics such as propagation, pest management and irrigation through a social justice lens

  • He has presented at 34th and 35th annual NYC Parks Green Thumb Grow Together Conference, New Directions in Environmental Law Conference, Yale Law School, and Huerto Semilla at the University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras

  • Cris is a skilled facilitator who has led and created workshops on patriarchy and consent, queer botany/queer ecology, Afro Indigenous food history, racism in the food system & BIPOC resistance movements

  • Cris has a decade of experience working in crisis support and LGBTQ rights organizations

WORK EXPERIENCE

2022 - Present

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Consultant & Facilitator

Trans Equity Consulting

Virtual

2018 - Present

Propagation Instructor

Farm School NYC

New York, NY

2021 - 2022

Curriculum Writer & Facilitator

Deep Routes

Brooklyn, NY

2015 - 2020

Farm Manager

KCC Urban Farm, Kingsborough Community College

Brooklyn, NY

EDUCATION

2013

Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, UC Santa Cruz

Certificate in Ecological Horticulture

Santa Cruz, CA

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2010

Hunter College, City University of New York

BA in Psychology, Minor in Women Studies

Cum Laude

New York, NY

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KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

​Below you will find a list of my awards and achievements:

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  • 2022 Culture of Health Leadership Institute for Racial Healing Fellow

  • 2019 Veggie Mijas Award "Community Advocate & Food Activist"

  • 2018 Faculty Achievement Award

  • 2016 President's Faculty Innovation Award "KCC Farm and Food Collaborative"

  • Coordinated QTBIPOC farmers & food workers caucus at the 2016 Just Food Conference, 2016 Black Farmers & Urban Gardeners (BUGS) conference and 2018 Interlocking Roots network gathering at the Allied Media Conference

  • Organized a group of 40 QTBIPOC leaders to support the rebuilding efforts of a school in Carolina, Puerto Rico post Hurricane Maria

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CONTACT

Email info@cristoferconsulting.com

Address Brooklyn, NY

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