Ava Bynum

Ava Bynum is a passionate systems thinker with experience in education, environmental justice, program and curriculum design, community organizing, development, and non-profit management. Ava founded Land to Learn, a nonprofit that connects public school students to the land, themselves and each other through weekly garden education. With Ava as Executive Director Land to Learn scaled to educate over 5,000 children every week in New York public schools through curriculum-integrated garden education.

Ava works with universities, start-up and established nonprofits, public and private schools, social service agencies, movement-building organizations, and social-impact businesses. Ava’s consulting practice combines their extensive experience in fundraising, organizational development and systems thinking.

In order to most effectively work with others on justice, leadership, and team building they put their beliefs into practice to continue learning from experience. Ava spends time in community, in movement work, and in nature to stay grounded.

V Lawson

V Lawson is a queer, Black, gender fluid facilitator and social worker who comes to this field  through curiosity, questioning and a deep desire to understand our systems and cultures and how they interact with our doing, being and becoming. They completed their Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology through a New York State opportunity program and went on to graduate school to receive a Masters of Science degree in Forensic Psychology and a Masters in Social Work from Columbia University. 

When working with organizations, they draw from their professional experiences as a nonprofit leader and somatic practitioner as well as their personal experiences of deepening ancestral knowledge, practicing emergent strategy, and organizing for environmental, racial, and economic justice.