Brahm Ahmadi

Brahm Ahmadi was born is Tehran, Iran and grew up in Los Angeles, CA. He now lives in Oakland, CA. Brahm is co-founder and Executive Director of People’s Grocery, a nonprofit food justice organization based in the low-income community of West Oakland. Brahm has a B.A. in Sociology from the University of California and is an MBA candidate at the Presidio School of Management. He is also Executive Director of the North Oakland Land Trust, which dedicates land in North Oakland for community gardening. Brahm is active in worker-owned cooperative business development and organizing for economic democracy and was a founding board member of the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives. Brahm combines social enterprise, cooperative economics, urban agriculture, public education and youth development to build healthy and stable inner city communities. He is a Fellow of LeaderSpring, a leadership training program for nonprofit Executive Directors in the San Francisco Bay Area. Brahm is also a planning fellow for the Roots of Change Fund, which is developing a strategy to create a sustainable food system for California by 2030.