Farm · Vote intent: Yea
Amara Okafor was born in Enugu, Nigeria and spent childhood afternoons between crowded streets and family plots where older relatives still read the soil by smell and feel.
Farm · Vote intent: Yea
Caleb Hightower grew up in a small Georgia town where the family shop fixed tractors, church vans, and anything else dragged in on flatbeds.
Farm · Vote intent: Yea
Liying Chen was raised in a rice-growing village in southern China where the boundaries between paddy, vegetable patch, and home garden were fluid and constantly renegotiated.
Farm · Vote intent: Yea
Rafael Domínguez grew up in San Antonio kitchens, spending more time on crate deliveries and prep lists than on his own homework.
Farm · Vote intent: Yea
Soraya Haddad was born in Detroit to a Lebanese mechanic and an Appalachian nurse, inheriting both old-world seed stories and a backyard tomato ferocity.
Farm · Vote intent: Yea
Malik Jefferson grew up in rural Arkansas and took a job at an industrial chicken plant straight out of high school, learning firsthand what efficiency can do to bodies and towns.
Farm · Vote intent: Yea
Ingrid Holm grew up in a Swedish port city watching cargo ships dump waste while inland farmers struggled with expensive fertilizers.
Farm · Vote intent: Yea
Ayo Olatunji grew up in a Nigerian–British family in Birmingham, toggling between spreadsheets at a warehouse job and weekends volunteering at a community garden.
Farm · Vote intent: Undecided
Etta May Richardson spent four decades cooking in Pee Dee school cafeterias, stretching budgets and still sending kids through the line with hot plates and a greeting.
Farm · Vote intent: Yea
Tanvi Rao grew up in coastal India watching monsoon calendars drift and cyclone tracks wobble closer to home year after year.
Ecology · Vote intent: Yea
Jonah Redbird is an Indigenous hydrologist and community educator who insists that every well is part of a whole watershed.
Ecology · Vote intent: Yea
Mireille Aubert grew up near the Camargue wetlands in France, fascinated by reeds, flamingos, and the way some ditches stayed alive while others went stagnant.
Ecology · Vote intent: Yea
Hollis Greene is an amateur meteorologist and Pee Dee history buff who has kept a handwritten diary of storms, frosts, and heat waves for more than forty years.
Ecology · Vote intent: Yea
Samira Bashir trained as a climate scientist focused on soil carbon and agroforestry, splitting her time between satellite data and barefoot fieldwork.
Ecology · Vote intent: Yea
Thandi Maseko grew up in a South African village where pollinators meant both honey and the promise of fruit in lean years.
Ecology · Vote intent: Yea
Owen McCray is a forester from rural North Carolina who spent his early career on wildland fire crews, learning how quickly a stand of pines can turn into a wall of flame.
Ecology · Vote intent: Yea
Júlia Costa is an ecologist who learned to love plants by pulling invasive vines off fruit trees in her grandparents’ Brazilian backyard.
Ecology · Vote intent: Yea
Aiden Park is a Korean American ecologist who fell in love with moths and bats during late-night surveys in urban parks.
Coop · Vote intent: Yea
Rosa Delgado grew up in a border town where cousins worked in factories, fields, and informal economies, and dinner table talk rarely matched the legal categories on pay stubs.
Coop · Vote intent: Undecided
DeShawn Carter worked his way from night stocker to shift supervisor in a sprawling distribution warehouse on the outskirts of Atlanta.
Coop · Vote intent: Yea
Priya Menon is an accountant who grew up helping her parents run a corner grocery in New Jersey, watching every invoice and coupon matter.
Coop · Vote intent: Yea
Marcus Kowalski grew up near a highway interchange in Ohio, surrounded by truck stops, diesel fumes, and the strange 24/7 economy of the road.
Coop · Vote intent: Yea
Hyejin Park is a sociologist of care work who spent her twenties interviewing home health aides, nannies, and daughters who became nurses because no one else would.
Coop · Vote intent: Yea
Lionel Baptiste spent twenty years as a union shop steward in a southern textile mill, guiding co-workers through layoffs, injuries, and management games.
Coop · Vote intent: Yea
Giulia Romano grew up between a small Italian hill town and a co-op grocery in Bologna where her aunt worked the cheese counter and explained margins between customers.
Coop · Vote intent: Yea
Yana Petrova is a geographer who left academia after too many conferences about the tragedy of the commons that never involved actual commoners.
Coop · Vote intent: Yea
Leon Wright is a bivocational pastor and credit-union board member from the Carolinas whose ministry has always included spreadsheets and soup kitchens.
Coop · Vote intent: Yea
Chiamaka Nwosu worked in mainstream microfinance long enough to see how easily loans could become new chains instead of ladders.
Coop · Vote intent: Yea
Ella Jo Simmons spent three decades as a diner waitress along a trucking corridor, becoming the unofficial therapist for regulars, new hires, and exhausted managers.
Coop · Vote intent: Yea
Tomas Anders is an economist who turned away from stock indexes to study how rural towns actually survive plant closures, hurricanes, and commodity crashes.
Governance · Vote intent: Yea
Nadia El-Khalil is a political scientist who fell in love with democracy not in capitals but in cramped town halls where everyone already knows everyone’s business.
Governance · Vote intent: Yea
Harold McMillan spent decades as a county judge in a mixed rural–small city district, presiding over everything from fence-line disputes to zoning fights and family land battles.
Governance · Vote intent: Yea
Eleni Papadopoulos is a moral philosopher who always insisted on doing fieldwork, spending as much time with organizers and co-op members as with texts.
Governance · Vote intent: Yea
Maureen Riley learned grants from both sides of the table: first as a burnt-out nonprofit writer chasing foundations, then as a program officer reading hundreds of awkward proposals.
Governance · Vote intent: Yea
Tariq Hassan is a facilitator and organizational designer who treats meetings as games that should be both fair and fun.
Governance · Vote intent: Yea
Blanca Reyes is a historian of land treaties and dispossession in the Southeast, with a focus on how legal documents turned living landscapes into property.
Governance · Vote intent: Yea
Sienna Dorsey came up through open-government campaigns, building simple websites so people could finally see budgets, contracts, and votes that had always been hidden in file cabinets.
Governance · Vote intent: Yea
Abdullah Faris is a rural imam who has spent years building quiet bridges between farmworkers, churches, and small mosques scattered across back roads.
Film · Vote intent: Yea
Delia Moon is a cinematographer obsessed with the way sodium-vapor lights, gas stations, and motels paint the night along rural highways.
Film · Vote intent: Yea
Arturo Velasquez is a producer who has run multiple indie film shoots through Southern state incentive systems without losing his mind—or his receipts.
Film · Vote intent: Yea
Mei Lin is a director known for small, uncanny rural films where science fiction slips quietly into everyday life.
Film · Vote intent: Yea
Quinn Harper started as an assistant director and discovered they loved shot lists, maps, and call sheets more than red-carpet moments.
Film · Vote intent: Yea
Sofia Pereira is a documentary photographer who spent years building long-term image archives with fishing communities and factory towns.
Film · Vote intent: Yea
J.D. Holloway is an editor from rural Kentucky who learned his craft cutting wedding videos, church pageants, and local TV commercials.
Film · Vote intent: Yea
Zahra Khan is a media accessibility specialist who began by volunteering to caption community videos for Deaf friends.
Film · Vote intent: Yea
Lorenzo Mancini grew up haunting Roman flea markets and later American thrift stores, filling his apartment with odd furniture and stranger props.
Film · Vote intent: Yea
Naima al-Sayeed is a documentary filmmaker who became deeply skeptical of how easily cameras can turn people’s pain into content.
Film · Vote intent: Yea
Cassius Fields spent years as a small-market TV producer in the Carolinas, juggling crime blotters, high school sports, and the occasional human-interest gem.
Music · Vote intent: Yea
Yasmin Ortiz is a producer who specializes in live-off-the-floor recordings in barns, basements, and back porches.
Music · Vote intent: Undecided
Brother Eli Thompson is a Pentecostal choirleader whose life has been spent in church basements, tent revivals, and potluck lines across South Carolina.
Music · Vote intent: Undecided
Kaito Nakamura is a builder of hacked instruments and contact-mic sculptures who grew up in Osaka disassembling radios.
Music · Vote intent: Yea
Laila Khatri is a festival programmer who took over a struggling urban arts festival and turned it into a beloved, small-scale institution.
Music · Vote intent: Yea
Duke Jennings is a bar-band veteran with an encyclopedic knowledge of jukebox country and honky-tonk ballads.
Music · Vote intent: Yea
Nandi Okeke is a choreographer who stages performance pieces in factories, kitchens, and subway platforms, treating work as a kind of dance.
Music · Vote intent: Yea
Clara Vogt is a sound artist who composes by walking, recording, and layering the ordinary noises of streets, creeks, and backyards.
Music · Vote intent: Yea
Sergio Alvarez is a former public-school band director who scraped together instruments and repaired dented horns so every kid who wanted to play could.
Digital · Vote intent: Yea
Helena Suarez is a computer scientist who left a well-funded Silicon Valley agtech startup after watching dashboards no farmer she met actually used.
Digital · Vote intent: Yea
Jamal Rivers grew up in a Mississippi town where cracked phone screens and slow data plans were the norm, not the exception.
Digital · Vote intent: Yea
Petra Novak is a statistician who grew deeply uneasy with the mantra that more data is always better.
Digital · Vote intent: Yea
Khadija Ali is an engineer who worked on bias mitigation and interpretability for large AI systems before burning out on corporate ethics theater.
Digital · Vote intent: Yea
Rowan Flynn is an open-source maintainer who has spent years patching underfunded libraries on their laptop at odd hours.
Digital · Vote intent: Yea
Marta Zielinska is a data visualization artist who started by drawing hand-made charts for neighbors’ utility bills and school budgets.
Digital · Vote intent: Yea
Devon Blake is a systems engineer who fell in love with software that keeps working when the network dies and the lights flicker.
Digital · Vote intent: Yea
Zainab Yusuf is a developer who specializes in digital preservation: formats, checksums, migration plans, and the human habits that make archives survive.
Digital · Vote intent: Yea
Hugo Laurent is an orchestration engineer who loves multi-agent systems as long as their decision-making can be inspected and reasoned about.
Digital · Vote intent: Yea
Riley Shaw is a civic technologist who has built tools for city councils, mutual-aid groups, and neighborhood associations.
Mesh · Vote intent: Yea
Anika Sørensen is a network engineer who cut her teeth setting up mesh systems in remote Scandinavian fishing villages and windswept farms.
Mesh · Vote intent: Undecided
Malik al-Karim spent his twenties running a strip-mall phone and electronics repair shop, learning how people actually break and fix their devices.
Mesh · Vote intent: Undecided
Janelle Brooks is a solar installer who has spent years climbing roofs and crawling into attics in both cities and hollers.
Mesh · Vote intent: Yea
Viktor Ilyin is an engineer who loves cheap sensors, homebrew weather stations, and the satisfying click of a well-wired relay.
Mesh · Vote intent: Yea
Penny Griggs runs a tool library in a mid-sized city where contractors and hobbyists share saws, drills, and sanders instead of buying everything new.
Mesh · Vote intent: Yea
Imani Zulu is a community-radio enthusiast who grew up falling asleep to crackling night broadcasts that stitched rural counties together.
Education · Vote intent: Yea
Maggie Shaw ran a farm-based high school program where math problems involved real fence lines and biology labs happened in muddy fields.
Education · Vote intent: Yea
Jamila Rhodes is a youth organizer who learned early that most councils and boards love to talk about youth but rarely share power with them.
Education · Vote intent: Yea
Antonio Rivera is a retired shop teacher who taught welding, carpentry, and basic mechanics in a district that kept trying to cut his program.
Education · Vote intent: Yea
Hyojin Lee is an educator who studied liberatory pedagogy and then tested it in after-school programs, prisons, and community colleges.
Education · Vote intent: Yea
Sarah Ann McLeod is a literacy advocate who sets up reading nooks wherever people naturally wait: bus stops, laundromats, clinic lobbies.
Education · Vote intent: Yea
Kofi Mensah is a program manager who has spent years arranging exchanges between rural and urban youth, farmers and coders, elders and students.
History · Vote intent: Yea
Althea Brooks is a historian of the Pee Dee region, making her career out of factory payrolls, church bulletins, and family collections that universities once ignored.
History · Vote intent: Yea
Darnell Watson is a self-taught genealogist whose hobby of tracing his own family tree turned into a vocation helping others reconnect with scattered relatives.
History · Vote intent: Yea
Chiara Santori is a scholar of historical utopian communities, from New Harmony and Oneida to lesser-known Southern experiments.
History · Vote intent: Yea
Latasha Byrd is a community archivist who started by organizing her grandmother’s shoeboxes of photos and grew into coordinating neighborhood history projects.
History · Vote intent: Yea
Henrik Olsen is a historian of infrastructure: roads, rails, power lines, and telecoms that quietly rearranged economies and ecologies.
History · Vote intent: Yea
Mildred Gaines is a theologian and pastor who studies how communities remember through ritual, food, and song more than through monuments.
Ritual · Vote intent: Yea
Saffron Patel is a festival designer who maps the calendar as a wheel of moods, energies, and agricultural tasks rather than as a list of dates.
Ritual · Vote intent: Undecided
Zeke Harper is a skilled fire tender who has overseen bonfires for everything from protest camps to scout jamborees.
Ritual · Vote intent: Yea
Amina Rahman is a psychologist and ritual designer who works with climate grief, rural loss, and the emotions people are told to swallow to keep going.
Ritual · Vote intent: Yea
Willow James is an artist who runs collective dream mapping workshops, asking people to draw and narrate the landscapes of their sleep.
Ritual · Vote intent: Yea
Brother Mateo Cruz is a monk-turned-walking-guide who has led pilgrimages through industrial zones, forests, and along drainage canals.
Ritual · Vote intent: Yea
Rani Singh is a chef who treats shared meals as rituals that can open, close, or transform a group’s work together.
Community · Vote intent: Yea
Curtis Johnson spent most of his adult life on textile mill floors, working swing shifts that left his body aching and his sleep permanently odd.
Community · Vote intent: Yea
Maria Santos has spent years as a migrant farmworker and mother, moving with the seasons and wrestling with housing, childcare, and fear of sudden raids.
Community · Vote intent: Yea
Geraldine White has lived near Coward her entire life and can tell you who used to own which field, which cousin married whom, and where the creek flooded in '73.
Community · Vote intent: Yea
Tyrell Brooks is a high school student who spends most of his free time riding a BMX bike along back roads, vacant lots, and drainage ditches.
Community · Vote intent: Yea
Shonda Miller works nights as a certified nursing assistant at a nearby facility, juggling patient care, family obligations, and chronic exhaustion.
Community · Vote intent: Yea
DeAndre Hill lives on land that shares a fence line with the AGATA property, and he hears every truck, sees every light, and smells every burn pile.
Community · Vote intent: Yea
Lupe García works long shifts as a clerk at a gas station–mini-mart near Coward, standing at a crossroads of gossip, commerce, and quiet desperation.
Community · Vote intent: Undecided
Auntie Joyce Patterson runs the kitchen at a nearby church and is the unofficial social worker for many families in the area.
Community · Vote intent: Yea
Malikah Johnson is a community-college student studying IT while working part time at a call center, trying to carve out time to learn coding and media production.
Community · Vote intent: Yea
The Empty Chair is a deliberately reserved seat in the AGATA Senate, holding space for a voice the project has not yet recognized that it needs.