Rhiley Allbee
10th Class, 2019-2021

Rhiley’s passion lies in facilitating sustainable and harmonious relationships between people and their environments. She completed a MS at Michigan Technological University in Forest Ecology as a part of the Peace Corps Master’s International program in spring 2019. Her master’s thesis focused on local perceptions of forest change over a 30-year period in the region of Kaffrine, Sénégal, where she served as an Agroforestry Extension Agent with the United States Peace Corps from 2015-2017. Through this work, Rhiley empowered small-holder farmers by facilitating the implementation of improved practices and techniques related to agroforestry and sustainable agriculture, ultimately leading to increased productivity, yields, and food security. Prior to becoming a Leland Fellow, Rhiley worked for the non-profit organization the Forest Stewards Guild in Santa Fe, New Mexico that promoted sustainable forest management through ecologically, economically, and socially responsible forestry practices. Her undergraduate degree is in Biology with minors in Sociology and Chemistry from Saginaw Valley State University.

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Anne Marie Noll
26th Class, 2019-2020

Anne Marie Noll is originally from the Hill Country outside of San Antonio, Texas, and studied cross-cultural studies history, peace studies, and Spanish with a minor in Latin American studies at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington. During her time at Whitworth, she helped lead Kipos, an environmental and food justice group that advocated for environmental issues, and ran a university community garden. She further developed her interest in food justice by working with nonprofits, farmers markets, and food councils in Eastern Washington that are fighting food insecurity. After graduating, she spent a year in Bogotá, Colombia as a Fulbright Scholar teaching English at Fundación Universitaria Los Libertadores and giving lectures on climate change and food security issues in the United States. She then moved to Boston to serve at the Mayor’s Office of Food Access as a FoodCorps service member, working to improve the quality of school meals throughout Boston Public Schools and teaching cooking and gardening at a bilingual public school in East Boston.

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