Ohemaa Boateng
Executive Director at Black Creek Community Farm- Claim this Profile
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Bio
Credentials
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Registered Early Childhood Educator
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Experience
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Black Creek Community Farm
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Canada
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Non-profit Organizations
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1 - 100 Employee
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Executive Director
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Mar 2022 - Present
Prior to accepting this position as Executive Director of Black Creek Community Farm, Ohemaa was the Program Manager for Green Thumb Growing Kids, a non-profit organization that cultivates environmental stewardship through hands-on garden and food education for racialized children and their communities. She also started a peer-mentoring support initiative for youth, mothers, and their children in the Jane and Finch and surrounding neighbourhoods called Baby Steps. Through this initiative she provided mobile childcare services, and advocated for parents who were incarcerated or out on parole. Ohemaa is an active member in various grassroots groups like Black Creek Food Justice Network, Jane and Finch Education Action Group, Black Food Sovereignty Initiative Toronto, Toronto Backyard Chickens, Jane and Finch Action Against Poverty, and Jane Finch Political Conversation Cafe. As a single mother of two, and a Black urban farmer in the Jane and Finch community, Ohemaa is raising her children to be stewards of the land and to understand where their food comes from. She has facilitated workshops for children, youth, local residents and seniors in the Black Creek, Regent Park and Lawrence Heights communities around raising backyard chickens, health and fitness, environmental stewardship, urban agriculture and growing Afro-Indigenous foods. Ohemaa is passionate about mindfulness, growing food sustainably, food literacy, environmental stewardship and Black and Indigenous food sovereignty.
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Green Thumbs Growing Kids
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Canada
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Civic and Social Organizations
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1 - 100 Employee
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Program Manager
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Mar 2019 - Mar 2022
Green Thumb Growing Kids, a non-profit organization that cultivates environmental stewardship through hands-on garden and food education for racialized children and their communities. Green Thumb Growing Kids, a non-profit organization that cultivates environmental stewardship through hands-on garden and food education for racialized children and their communities.
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Owner
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Jun 2016 - Mar 2020
Childcare when you want it, where you need it!I provide child care and children entertainment services for workshops, conventions, corporate events, weddings, special events and meetings at their local venues.
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Founder
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Jan 2013 - Mar 2020
BSP is committed to providing everything F.A.B. (Fun festivities, Action-packed activities, and the Best steps to build a happy and healthy family)
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Farm Staff/Early Childhood Educator
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Jun 2014 - Dec 2016
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United Way
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United States
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Non-profit Organization Management
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700 & Above Employee
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Animator
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Feb 2015 - Apr 2015
Facilitated the discussions with community resident, leaders and stakeholders for 8 Days of Dialogue: Poverty reduction Strategy community discussions in various neighborhoods to help The City of Toronto develop a poverty reduction strategy for Torontonians. Facilitated the discussions with community resident, leaders and stakeholders for 8 Days of Dialogue: Poverty reduction Strategy community discussions in various neighborhoods to help The City of Toronto develop a poverty reduction strategy for Torontonians.
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Education
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2015 - 2015
School For Social Entrepreneurs
Certificate, Social Enterprise -
2012 - 2013
Sheridan College
Diploma, Early Childhood Education and Teaching -
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York University
Criminology -
Downsview Secondary School
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