Our Team
Our team is made up of students of the outdoors. We have careers outside of Braided Seeds, but our shared vision of seeing more BIPOC outdoors unites us. Learn about how we fell in love with the outdoors and our favorite ways to get outside below.
Our Staff
Ashleigh Shoecraft (she/her)
Executive Director
Earliest Outdoor Memory: Playing in my parent’s backyard
Favorite Outdoor Activities: foraging, white water rafting, gardening
Brianna Klein (she/her)
Earliest Outdoor Memory: Collecting jasmine flowers and pine needles at my elementary school and making bracelets for my friends in the grass
Favorite Outdoor Activities: fishing, hunting, slow hiking, surfing
Corina Rendón (she/her)
Earliest Outdoor Memory: Some of my earliest outdoor memories are playing outside with my neighbor friends and adventuring around our neighborhood.
Favorite Outdoor Activities: Hanging out on my deck or in my hammock, gardening, walking my dog, bike riding, hiking, camping
Chioma Uruakpa (they/them)
Youth + Family Programs Coordinator
Earliest Outdoor Memory: playing outside in the backyard by myself, with my neighbors and with my sister, talking with the land.
Favorite Outdoor Activity: Camping in the backcountry— I feel brand new after :)
Miyah Owens (she/they)
Administrative Assistant
Earliest Outdoor Memory: Hours spent on the playground with friends!
Favorite Outdoor Activities: forest bathing, gardening, walking, listening to water
Our Board
Taylor Jones (she/her)
Early Outdoor Memory: Camping with my family, and remembering Ashleigh rolling the car on that camping trip
Favorite Outdoor Activities: hiking, camping, river floating, gardening; chasing waterfalls
Charissa Bass (she/her)
Earliest Outdoor Memory: A giant camp-out in our backyard with 60+ kids invited from the Union Gospel Mission where my mom worked.
Favorite Outdoor Activities: camping; sleeping outdoors; stargazing; spending time on the tropical beach
Taylor Tibbs (she/they)
Community Engagement Coordinator
Earliest Outdoor Memory: Picking blackberries with their Uncle for a blackberry cobbler!
Favorite Outdoor Activities: Camping with family near the ocean with all the dogs.
Jude Knife (they/them)
Earliest Outdoor Memory: I remember making mud pies under banana trees in Zimbabwe with my cousins in the dry heat. I remember warm rain in monsoon season and running outside until I couldn’t run anymore.
Favorite Outdoor Activities: hiking/walking, biking, farming, reading outside
Sarijana Clark (she/her)
Earliest Outdoor Memory: Show and tell experience in the 2nd grade, bringing my horse to school and discussing horsemanship.
Favorite Outdoor Activities: volunteering at a therapeutic horseback riding center, camping, beginner hiking, fishing
Vincent Kwan (he/him)
Earliest outdoor memory: Working with my grandma in the garden
Favorite Outdoor Activities: Enjoying a night near the water and watching the sunset