Full Name
Derrienne Reese
Job Title
Urban Farmer
Company
Asibara Forest
Speaker Bio
Derrienne Reese is a self-taught hand embroidery artist, forest school instructor, and urban farmer based in Detroit. Through Asibara Forest, Derrienne creates open-air classrooms and hands-on learning experiences that reconnect youth and communities with the land. As an artist, she uses hand embroidery to explore stories of identity, memory, and belonging. Her work brings together art, education, and urban farming to create meaningful connections between people and nature, one stitch, one seed, and one story at a time.
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