Azuré Keahi 

Azuré Keahi is a mixed race mother, grower, writer, creator and record keeper of Kanaka ‘Ōiwi, Filipino, Samoan and European ancestry based on Mohican soils of Upstate New York. Transitioning from the landscape of the Koʻolau Mountains to the Hudson Valley of the Northeast, she began to explore earthwork as healing for herself and the surrounding community led by her commitment to food sovereignty and intersectional justice.

Azuré Keahi nurtures the Sanctuary for Independent Media’s block-wide, public food forest and demonstration garden, Collard City Growers, designing and realizing way-finding, signage, and garden layouts for earth-based learning and collaboration. With a focus on land-based learning, she has collaborated with local artists and creatives to create experiential installations and performances ranging from a bee hive relocation procession to a multimedia sensory baptism. Her stories of diaspora,ʻāina-based healing and ancestral reunion have been published in The Greenhorns’: New Farmer’s Almanac, Tropic Magazine, GRIST, Atmos and The Daily Yonder. Having managed a food business in NYC, farmer’s markets for Denison Farm, holding worker-ownership at Capital Bookkeeping Cooperative, and having served as the Business Manager of Soul Fire Farm, she brings the gifts of her ancestors and is guided by diverse experience and history in her development of land-based and experiential learning, art, design, and writing.

Azuré has been honored to be on the list of the nonprofit media organization Grist‘s 2023 annual list of leaders in climate and justice: Meet the Seven Indigenous Climate Fixers Selected for the Grist 50 List.