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Speaking & Keynote

Germaine delivers compelling keynotes and talks that blend lived experience, data, and narrative storytelling to challenge assumptions and inspire concrete change. High-impact talks that connect food, land, and justice to action.

Popular Topics Include:

  • Radically Relational Farming: Building Food Systems Rooted in Trust

  • From Food Deserts to Food Sovereignty

  • Land, Legacy, and Community Wealth

  • Justice as Climate and Health Infrastructure

    • What Philanthropy Gets Wrong—and How to Get It Right

The ribbon Germaine had the privilege to cut during the Detroit People’s Food Coop Grand Opening, May 2024

Workshops & Trainings

Practical tools for people doing the work

Interactive sessions designed for teams, cohorts, and community leaders who need frameworks they can apply immediately.

Workshop Focus Areas:

  • Designing community-led food access models

  • Building trust-based partnerships

  • Sustainable urban farm economics

  • Youth workforce development through food systems

  • Navigating land access and stewardship

A sweet and encouraging note from Senator Elizabeth Warren after a Coastal Community Forum in Charleston, Spring 2019

Advisory & Strategic Consulting

Guidance for institutions navigating equity-driven change.

Germaine advises organizations seeking to align values with practice—especially when working in communities historically excluded from decision-making.

Ideal For:

  • Foundations rethinking food justice funding strategies

  • Cities developing equitable food or land-use plans

  • Nonprofits scaling without losing mission

  • Corporate social impact and ESG teams

A sweet and encouraging note from Senator Elizabeth Warren after a Coastal Community Forum in Charleston, Spring 2019

Facilitated Conversations & Retreats

When the work requires honesty, care, and accountability.

Germaine facilitates conversations where power, race, land, and resources intersect—helping groups move through tension toward clarity and shared direction.

Ideal Settings:

Leadership retreats · Cross-sector convenings · Community-institution dialogues

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Educational Agrotourism

60-90 Minute Sessions are Perfect For:

  • Health Ministries

  • Libraries

  • K-12 Schools

  • Community Centers

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I believe meaningful, long-lasting collaboration moves at the speed of trust—with shared values, rest, and care at the center. I’m most energized when working alongside everyday people building community-rooted solutions to food sovereignty challenges—and with institutions ready to back their words with resources and reparative action.

Work begins when those most impacted by the food system have already started naming the future they want. Just Germaine Jenkins LLC is here to help build it—strategically, creatively, and on your terms.

EMAIL‍ ‍justgermainejenkins@gmail.com

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Sweating for a world where our grandchildren and grandparents thrive on the same local foods