KELEBOHILE NKHEREANYE (KELE) is a food street vendor, food justice activist, community chef and leader in East New York. Kele is an immigrant from Lesotho, Southern Africa, where she learned the values of street vendors as opportunities toward economic empowerment. Currently, Kele works as a Station Agent for NYCTA. She is a committed member of SVP supporting efforts advocating for street vendors to remind New Yorkers to think of vendors as small business owners who need to work to support their families. She graduated from MCNY with MPA, Hunter College with Sociology and Women’s Studies.

MOHAMED ATTIA is the Managing Director of the Street Vendor Project at the Urban Justice Center (SVP), a 2,800+ member-strong organization that champions the rights of street vendors as small businesses to earn a living and contribute to the culture and life of New York City. Attia migrated to the US from Alexandria, Egypt, in 2008 working as a street vendor for nearly ten years selling hot dogs, halal chicken over rice, and smoothies in Times Square. He joined as a member of the Street Vendor Project (SVP) in 2012 and was an elected member leader of the organization until … Continued

TIANA RAINFORD is Co-Project Director at East NY Farms! She is a CUNY Brooklyn College graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Food and Nutrition Studies. Her interests in food sustainability and how food politics and culture affect one’s access to preventative health care grew during her academic studies. She wanted to find a way to use her knowledge of food and nutrition to directly benefit her community of East New York. With ENYF, she combines her devotion to food justice in her community with her extensive knowledge in nutrition sciences to encourage food security in East New York.