Shorlette (she/her), Farm Aid’s Co-Executive Director/Program Director, is a native of Beautancus, North Carolina, where she grew up in a large family of farmworkers, cooks, storytellers and spades players. She serves on the board of Land Loss Prevention Project, an organization based in Durham, North Carolina, that works to save and preserve Black family farmland. She also is a former children’s librarian. In her work and daily life, Ammons seeks to lift up and be informed by familial ancestors like her grandparents, Grandma Adell and Grandaddy Rasper, daddy June, aunts Annette, Lou and Viv; uncles Buck, Ross and L.J., cousin Brandon, as well as freedom fighters like Fannie Lou Hamer and educators like George Washington Carver. Ammons and her daughter still call North Carolina home.