Sid Clarke is currently pursuing a Master of Urban Planning at the University at Buffalo. Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, they were first introduced to urban agriculture in high school during an internship with the City Parks Foundation, where they spent eight months working in a community garden. They graduated with a Bachelor’s in Anthropology from the City University of New York- Brooklyn College, where they conducted their senior ethnographic research project on food access inequities and environmental racism in predominantly Black communities in New York City and Washington DC. Their interests within planning include food systems, climate justice, and sustainable urban design. They hope to use green urban design to advocate for sustainable infrastructure that supports the health and autonomy of people and the planet, and to endorse community focused equitable urban agriculture and nontraditional food retail to address the systemic inequities that communities of color face in the food system. In their free time, Sid enjoys hiking, pottery and crocheting to unwind.