Sevaad Walker
Land & Community Steward
Sevaad Walker (they/them) is a sower of disruption and a cultivator of world-building, rooted in the practice of tending land, memory and possibility. They are an earth worker, a student of root work, a familial archivist and an oral historian devoted to preserving and activating the wisdom of their lineage. Grounded in a deep commitment to abolition as a necessary pathway toward Black liberation, Sevaad’s work explores the intersections of abolition, disability justice, Black feminism, Afrofuturism, and solidarity economy as sites of radical imagination and liberatory economic practice.
As Programs Director of Sweet Freedom Farm and shaped by their time as a farmer on the land, Sevaad stewards land based programming and community rooted initiatives that center fostering interspecies connection. They designed and are growing a food distribution effort that moves fresh, culturally relevant produce across New York State to predominantly Black and Brown queer and trans incarcerated kin. This effort expands access to nourishing, culturally relevant food, while pouring into grassroots efforts to end incarceration through resource redistribution.
Sevaad is a Community Collaborative member of Sankofa Village Arkansas, an emerging Black-led intentional community dedicated to transforming multigenerational health through land stewardship, education, housing affordability, wealth-building and climate resiliency. They are also a member of the National Black Food & Justice Alliance’s Black Land & Power organizing group, the Black & Indigenous Land Working Group of the New Economy Coalition, and the Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust (NEFOC). A Soul Fire Farm alum and participant in Farm School NYC, Sevaad continues to deepen their practice of ecological stewardship. Across all of their work, they are committed to stewarding visions for Black, queer and trans liberation, grounded in ancestral knowledge, guided by play and driven by radical imagination toward liberated futures.