Brooke G. Redmond, Executive Director
Brooke Redmond is the Executive Director of The Farm-Based Education Association.
She is also the founder of Radish Road, a consulting business that works
with farm-based education programs to advance sustainable food systems, land
conservation, citizenship, and community health.
In May 2004, Brooke received a Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies from Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. Her academic training was in educational program development, and her thesis, A Return to the Farm: Educational Theory and Program Development in Alternative Learning Environments, involved the development of a farm -based education program using a 1,000 acre historic working farm in Massachusetts as a model. While a graduate student, she was successively the associate director of marketing and educational services at an educational website and the director of special projects at a food issues think tank in Boston.
Before perusing her graduate degree, Brooke worked at ABC News in New York
City as an editorial producer in the breaking news division and as an associate
producer in the documentary division. Prior to that she worked at Lifetime
Television as a producer and coordinator of public affairs programming and
outreach campaigns.
Brooke’s volunteer work includes her role as vice-chair of the Steering Committee of the Conservation Council of the Trustee of Reservations, a Massachusetts land conservation organization. As a member of the Board of Trustees of the Ethel Walker School in Simsbury, CT, she currently chairs the Green Committee charged with enhancing on-campus sustainable practices. She has also been a volunteer teacher at Kids Can Cook, a cooking and mentoring program for urban students in Boston.
Brooke graduated from Skidmore College in 1994 with a B.A. in English. Brooke has spent the last two years living in Hanover, NH with her husband and their son. They moved to Concord, MA this summer.