Daman Parr (he/him/his), here. I'm the Education Programs Manager for the Center for Agroecology at UC Santa Cruz. I've been farming in various capacities for 36 years and chose formal adult agriculture education as a vocation as it allows me to stay in agriculture, contribute to systemic societal healing, and make a living that can support a family. My graduate work and career has focused on better understanding and improving student farms at R1/Land Grant University campuses, and curricula and degree program development in the UC, nationally and internationally. I focus on contributing to underrepresented students success by facilitating critical theory-informed pedagogy; experiential, trans-disciplinary and systems-based action-learning. Current projects include supporting the UCSC Agroecology major and the Center's field-based experiential learning programming, including designing and establishing a multi-campus and ANR partnered Agroecology Field Quarter.