Jimmy Purvis

Jimmy graduated from Wesleyan University in 2004 with a degree in Religious Studies.  He worked as a crew leader at the Marin Conservation Corps, facilitating a crew of eight environmental educators, developing training opportunities, and coordinating AmeriCorps national service days.  Jimmy has a sustained interest in agriculture and nutrition; he has served as a gardening and nutrition educator in elementary and middle schools, began an all organic farm stand in a Marin County neighborhood with no grocery store, helped to start an organic farm at Wesleyan, and conducted research in Nepal about the relationship between Himalayan Buddhism and agriculture.

Field placement: Farm to Table

Santa Fe, New Mexico

Policy placement: Migrant Legal Action Program

Washington, D.C.