LaWanda Hollister at the We The People Opportunity Farm. She was recently named its new executive director.
Ypsilanti Township’s We The People Opportunity Farm’s new Executive Director, LaWanda Hollister, says she will do all she can to carry forward the work of founder the late Melvin Parson but admits she has big shoes to fill.
As the formerly incarcerated interns work the soil, Hollister gathers them together for a couple of photos. At the farm behind Grace Fellowship Church, they grow hope, opportunity and self-respect along with the crops…