Tory is raised and shaped by the fierceness of her love for ocean, plants, open sky, and family of all contours. She is grateful to have spent more than 25 years working for social justice organizations—particularly around food sovereignty and racial justice—farming, writing, and being taught by the land.

She currently works at the Center for Earth Ethics as a research and teaching associate and recently completed a master’s of divinity program at Union Theological Seminary with a focus on the intersections of ecology and spirituality.

In previous years, Tory was a research and education coordinator for Other Worlds, a community organizer with Arise for Social Justice, and co-founder of a CSA vegetable farm called Next Barn Over. Tory is the author, with Beverly Bell, of “Harvesting Justice: Transforming Food, Land, and Agricultural Systems in the Americas” (2013) and has contributed to the news and analysis websites Toward Freedom, Common Dreams and Truthout, among others.