Our Streets is a column by writer and reporter Ray Levy Uyeda that highlights activists, artists, and organizers who are doing the work and reclaiming power for the people.
Dr. Cindy Ayers Elliott wasn’t always going to be a farmer. Up until the early 2000s, she was working a successful career in finance in New York. But after 9/11, Ayers Elliott decided to return to her roots and move in a new direction. So she relocated to her home state of Mississippi, settling in Jackson and hoping to do work that was centered around community. She eventually got a gig as the executive director of an agricultural non-profit organization.
