Jennifer Papa

Jennifer Papa is the Executive Director and Founder of City Green. Jennifer’s vision when founding City Green was to support livable, green urban communities that are socially, economically, and environmentally rejuvenated. City Green’s mission since 2004 has been to work to create increased access to healthy, local food while cultivating education in food systems, nutrition, and the environment. City Green works to ensure that everyone has access to bountiful fresh produce; that youth have opportunities for volunteering, leadership, and employment in the community; and that those neighborhoods have welcoming, safe, natural respites.

From preschoolers to high school students, Jennifer works to establish a breadth of educational farm and garden programming to forge a connection between students, food, and nature. Indeed, Jennifer Papa exemplifies the expressed intent of the Elizabeth Abernathy Hull Award as “an individual who, through working with children under 16 years of age in horticulture and the environment, has inspired their appreciation of the beauty and fragility of our planet.”