URS major Tepfirah "Tee" Rushdan, Detroit's first director of urban agriculture, is working to grow community efforts toward food sustainability.
The urban and regional studies major holds leadership roles in three local farming- and food justice-focused nonprofits and was recently appointed the City of Detroit's first director of urban agriculture, a sign of the growing importance of these efforts to the city's vitality. Appointed to the role this fall, Rushdan will help shape city policy regarding urban farming and serve as a liaison to the urban farming community.
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