Endiya Griffin

In the summer of 2025, in partnership with Alternative School Network, Mama Moore became a One Summer Chicago coordinator– launching our first year of the Agro Ecology Summer Apprenticeship. Since 2011, the City of Chicago’s One Summer Chicago program (now called Chicago Youth Works ) allows youth to be compensated for 20 hours of work per week for 6 weeks throughout the summer at a range of businesses and non-profits across the city.  Summer apprentices build an outdoor coffee table from a...

Saturday, April 27th was Mama Moore {Re}Generation Center’s first Ujima Collective Work Day of the year. Ujima  is a Swahili principle that recognizes the importance of community coming together to take responsibility for our shared space as we work to address challenges and build toward a collective vision.   In collaboration with a longtime values-based partner, Sweet Water Foundation , our intergenerational team of over 20 community members was able to fill eight garden beds that were...