Emily Sloss, Farm Manager
Emily graduated with a Public Policy degree from Duke in 2010 and was part of the student team that sparked the idea for the farm during her senior year. Taken by the idea of a campus farm and the thriving local food scene in Durham, Emily was compelled to turn this dream into a reality. Over the following year, with a dedicated team of student volunteers and faculty support, the farm transformed from a fallow piece of land into a bountiful half-acre farm and educational facility serving the Duke community. Emily now works full-time for the university managing the farm, overseeing everything from food production to student interns and educational programming. emily.sloss@duke.edu

Sarah Parsons, Farm Fellow
Sarah is a recent graduate from the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University, where she received a Masters in Environmental Management in 2012.  In her studies at Duke she focused on food justice and sustainable landscaping.  Sarah did her master’s project on “An Evaluation of the Food Desert Definition in Durham, NC,” where she mapped food deserts in Durham and reassessed the parameters of food deserts.  Sarah also recently finished working with Sarah P. Duke Gardens to get one of their new garden installments SITES certified.  While at the Nicholas School Sarah was a leader of Farmhand, a graduate student group on campus, which hosts workdays at local farms in the area in an effort to lend small farmers a helping “farmhand.” Sarah graduated from Emory University with a B.A. in Environmental Science.  She is from Stockbridge, Georgia.  sarah.parsons@duke.edu

Anna Willoughby, Student Intern
Anna is a sophomore in Trinity studying . During her Freshman Orientation Week she visited the farm, jumped at the opportunity to become involved and has since made the farm her home away from campus. Over the past two years, Anna has become the farm’s resident cheese-maker, garden artist and advocate for making the farm space fun, interactive and welcoming to all students.  anna.willoughby@duke.edu

Damon Cory-Watson, Student Intern
Damon is a second year MEM student at the Nicholas School studying ecosystem science and sustainable agriculture. Before moving to Durham, he and his wife, Sara, lived in DC, where he taught at a public charter school.  He loves working on big projects with great people, and is particularly passionate about tending to the farm’s mushrooms and compost. damon.cory.watson@duke.edu

Emily McGinty, Student Intern

Emily is a senior from Pittsburgh, PA and has been involved in growing food at Duke since she arrived in Fall 2009. She enjoys working and hanging out at the farm, chatting with people about food issues, and chatting in general. Emily attends classes when she isn’t doing any of the aforementioned activities, and will (hopefully) graduate in May with a fancy piece of paper that says she studied Public Policy. emily.mcginty@duke.edu

Sara Overton, Nicholas School Assistantship

Steve Kuznetsov, Student Intern