Meet Nisreen Abo-Sido ’23!
Nisreen is pursuing a Master of Environmental Management (MEM) at the Yale School of the Environment (YSE). Her studies focus on food systems and small farmer livelihoods. Before coming to YSE, Nisreen worked as a project manager for a nonprofit organization, where she led a collaborative, multistakeholder, and place-based regenerative agriculture initiative. Upon graduating from Wellesley College in 2018, Nisreen embarked on an international independent study—as a Thomas Watson Fellow—to explore how small farmers creatively develop innovative agricultural techniques. Last summer, she was a policy intern with the New Haven Food Systems Policy Division (FSPD), where she assisted the Division in organizing and implementing its community-informed projects for supporting specialty crop cultivation and access in New Haven. Nisreen's research and work experiences have inspired in her a commitment to participatory processes that support farmer agency and advance food sovereignty.