Aba Kiser

Aba Kiser grew up in her grandmother’s garden on the east coast in traditional Piscatoway Conoy territory near Washington DC. Always a plant lover, she went on to explore the intersections of culture and language within agriculture at the Evergreen State College. Aba traveled and farmed extensively throughout the United States the WWOOF program. She returned to the northwest to settle in Jefferson County, WA where she worked on local farms and as a market manager with the Jefferson County Farmers Markets. She became the Farm Tour Coordinator and Project Manager of the Cascadia Grains Conference with Washington State University in 2015. Since then Aba has gone on to develop the statewide Food Systems Innovation Event model and bring her production skills and expertise to such events as the International Quinoa Research Symposium, the WA Meat Up, the Inland Northwest Artisan Grains Conference, and RadTV with the Culinary Breeding Network. In addition to her seed saving work with the Organic Seed Alliance, she is currently the Program Manager for the state-wide WSU Food Systems Program, working with local and national partners to continue conversations of racial equity and land access.