Devin began studying, working in, and organizing around food systems over 15 years ago. She got her Bachelors in Society & Environment from the Johnston Center for Integrated Studies at the University of Redlands . She is currently a PhD candidate in the City, Culture, and Community program at Tulane University where she studies how growers interact with and understand their surrounding environments with a focus on the conditions here in the metropolitan New Orleans area. What does food justice look like for growers here? How does our environment play a role?

She has worked within agricultural systems as a nursery stock and row crop fieldhand, farmers markets salesperson, educator, community gardener, grassroots member/organizer with the Greater New Orleans Growers Alliance, and is just starting as farm owner/operator at Rude Becky Farm. She believes that food is an integral vehicle through which we will achieve a sustainable and just future for New Orleans, the Gulf South, and the planet. She is excited to work on systems-level change using every tool we’ve got—including research and policy!