Communications Manager: Outreach, Engagement, and Partnerships
After a couple of years as a freelance communications contractor working with OFRF, Elizabeth Tobey (she/her) is delighted to join the staff as Communications Manager: Outreach, Engagement, and Partnerships in December 2024.
Elizabeth has been involved in organic agriculture for as long as she can remember, growing up on a small family homestead in Oregon, and later pursuing sustainability, community building, and food systems in her work and studies. Unschooled in her youth, she later earned a degree in Sustainable Community Development from Prescott College, with a focus on Mentoring Future Generations. She has extensive experience as an educator in both indoor and outdoor settings, with preschoolers through adults. She is motivated by a deep desire to connect people to the land on which they live and believes that we all have a responsibility to care for the earth and each other.
She lives in the Ohio River Valley, on the traditional homelands of the Shawnee in what is now known as Southern Indiana. She is a farmer, crafter, and program coordinator at Bundle Sticks Farm, where she and her partner produce high-quality materials for land-connected craft and bring people together to share skills. On the farm and in all life, Elizabeth honors the complexities of power and privilege and is committed to ongoing learning around how to be a better ancestor, ally, and activist. When she’s not at work in front of a computer, or out tending to the land, you’ll likely find her cooking delicious food to share with friends.