We are excited to report that Mary Ann Brooks has joined the Pie Ranch team to work more closely with our urban school partners in San Francisco. As the Urban Youth Development Coordinator, she will be working with Mission High School and John O’Connell High School to:

• collaborate with teachers and administrators to develop program goals, structure, and targets;
• engage with other organizations who are also working with SFUSD schools on compatible goals;
• work alongside youth to teach and model healthy relationships with food, work, and one another;
• cultivate leadership within student community to set priorities for bringing healthy change in community;
• grow the relationship with Pie Ranch to improve access for the whole school community to the physical and cultural context of farming.

 
Mary Ann Brooks is a youth educator, organic gardener, outdoor educator and artist. Her adventures have led her from California’s back country mountain ranges to dance studios in New Zealand. A seasoned educator and artist, she has directed after school arts programming and taught urban gardening for over thirteen years. In 2001 she completed the apprenticeship at the UC Santa Cruz Farm & Garden where she served as an assistant teacher.  She continues to teach yoga, perform and garden with youth in San Francisco. 
 

We are very excited to have Mary Ann on the Pie Ranch team.