Jocelyn Apicello

Jocelyn Apicello has been teaching public health courses with BPI since 2012 and is the Urban Farming & Sustainability Faculty Advisor. She helps the BPI gardeners grow in the BPI gardens at Fishkill, Taconic and Woodbourne facilities and works with alumni when they return home to keep land stewardship a part of their practice. She oversees BPI’s Community Engagement Stipend, which encourages and recognizes alumni’s important work in their communities. She also runs her own farm in the Hudson Valley where she trains new and diverse farmers skills in regenerative agriculture, self sufficiency and community organizing. She holds a DrPH from Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health where she wrote about the public health impacts of gentrification in New York City.