Damian Thompson

Recipient of the Elizabeth Abernathy Hull Award, 2017

Damian Thompson has been a garden educator at the Dunbar Garden Project in Little Rock for 14 years and its director for 12 years. He manages the three-acre urban garden and teaching farm, providing curriculum development, fundraising leadership, animal husbandry, and educational programming. The purpose of the garden project is to teach sustainable urban agriculture to the nearly 800 students it hosts each month. One supporter wrote, “Damian and the garden are the most powerful assets to ensure my kids WANT to become stewards of the environment.”