Kristen Whitmore

Kristen Whitmore (she/they) is Special Projects Coordinator at the Collaborative for Educational Services. She works on the Healthy Hampshire initiative, which engages residents and partners in creating beautiful and nourished communities through collaborative, power-sharing processes aimed at systems change. Kristen is white, queer, and working class, and they spent the past 15 years learning and practicing community self-determination, food sovereignty, and liberation. They have worked with family farmers, food justice organizations, community coalitions, and students of all ages in New England and Latin America. Her work has included managing farmers markets, farm share programs, a Produce Prescription program, and a food hub; bookkeeping and grant writing for food businesses and organizations; conducting participatory, qualitative, and ethnographic research on food systems; teaching, facilitation, and mentorship in community and University settings; developing narrative strategies and communications tools; and community organizing to build the power of oppressed peoples. Kristen holds a bachelor’s degree in Sociology and Gender Studies from Mount Holyoke College and a master’s degree in Regional Planning from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Kristen was raised in western Massachusetts by a family of farmers, food workers, and truck drivers. They love cooking, learning new things, and hanging out with their partner and two corgis.