Angela is a fourth-generation farmer and cooperative development expert with more than 20 years of experience in developing agricultural cooperatives, and implementing alternative social entrepreneurship models. She is one of the first, (and probably only) Black women cannabis farmers in the state of Minnesota and one of only a handful in the entire country. She has been a licensed hemp farmer and processor for the past three years and has operated in the medical cannabis space nationally for seven years. Angela is an advocate for equity and sustainability in agriculture and has co-founded several community initiatives, including Forty Acre Co-op (www.fortyacre.coop), one of the only owned hemp Black-Indigenous owned cooperatives in the country, and The Minnesota Black Farmers’Famer’s Association (www.blackfarmersmn.org), the leading farmer equity voice in the Midwest region. Her passions have allowed her to integrate academic and professional expertise in public health with her advocacy and business development skills to solve emergent community issues impacting agricultural equity, access to technology, entrepreneurship, and education.