Brooke G. Redmond, Director of Communications & Development
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.
Currently, Brooke’s other work includes her role as a member of
the Board of Directors of Battle Road Farms on
Concord, MA and an advisor to the Communiy Farm of Simsbury in CT.
She is the co-chair of the 2011 Ethel Walker School Environemntal
Symosium and aa member of the Board of Trustees of the Ethel Walker
School in Simsbury, CT where she co-chairs the Centennial Steering
Committee. Brooke also its on the Communciations and Kids Eat
Smart Committees of Food for
Thought: The God Food Network of Concord & Carlisle,
MA.
Brooke graduated from Skidmore College in 1994 with a B.A. in
English. Brooke lives in Concord, MA with her husband and two
children.
