Lydia Lapporte

Program Associate

Lydia has served in multiple capacities at California I CAN since she first joined in 2017 as a student intern. She studied Environmental Studies and Studio Art at Whitman College where she received her BA in 2020 and has worked in garden-based education, research, publishing, as well as operations and programming for numerous organizations including Urban Adamah in Berkeley, California and Smithereen Farm in Maine where Lydia currently runs the Seaweed Commons, a public learning platform in service of supporting just seaweed economies and ecologies. Her research interests include commons-based resource use, political ecology, Indigenous studies, the intertidal, and new materialism. We are so grateful that Lydia has continued to work with California I CAN as a much valued Program Associate while also serving as Assistant to the Executive Director.  In addition to her many organizational talents, Lydia creates small books and big weavings.