Assistant Director, UM Sustainable Living Experience
In 2014 Emily Canosa came on board as the first manager of UMSFP, a student-led umbrella organization designed to bring together student efforts to build a sustainable food system on campus as students grow as food citizens and change agents. Her role is to connect students with the resources they need to succeed in working with faculty, staff, one another, and the larger community in meeting their individual and collective goals related to sustainable food.
Emily began working with food at a permaculture farm in Japan, and later worked with community gardens and youth programming alongside residents of Avalon Housing in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Her Masters degree led her back to Japan to study sustainable food movements in the Kanto region, and after completion she became a farmer-owner at Singing Tree Garden, a worker cooperative farm in Detroit that uses sustainable growing practices. In addition to working with UMSFP, she is co-founder of The Hive sustainable living cooperative, and board member of The Agrarian Adventure, a local nonprofit that aims to enrich K-12 student connections between food, the environment, communities and personal health.
