Meet our new Loam Listen host, Amirio Freeman! In this transitional episode, Loam Creative Director Kate and Amirio explore a fresh vision for this podcast that is responsive to this moment.

Amirio is a Black, queer Southerner and a food systems advocate and artist. Amirio is the founder of Being Green While Black, a “visual archive of the constellations of greenness within the vast cosmos of blackness” that ultimately serves as a “digital spell to conjure socially, politically, economically, and ecologically just futures where blackness isn’t marginalized.”

Currently based in Washington, D.C., Amirio is an advocacy specialist for a domestic hunger-relief organization; there, they use policy, art, and community to envision and manifest a healthier and more equitable food system in the U.S. Amirio’s life and work are propelled by the belief that “[w]hen we love the Earth, we are able to love ourselves more fully.” (bell hooks)