Sierra Club Meeting: Travis County Parks Foundation

This month’s meeting will be on Thursday, January 22nd, and will feature a presentation from the Travis County Parks Foundation by Allisha Macharia, Park Stewardship Director for the Travis County Parks Foundation.  Allisha will give a general overview of Travis County Parks Foundation, highlighting their Night Sky and Park Stewards programming.

Allisha’s bio:

Ailisha Macharia is a community-driven leader who creates and delivers high-impact public programming, develops confident teams to educate, facilitate, and share resources with care. Ailisha previously served as the Program Coordinator for The Happy Kitchen/La Cocina Alegre® at Sustainable Food Center. Ailisha has brought programming to a wide range of community spaces, including recreation centers, schools, churches, grocery stores, and clinics across Austin, Manor, Bastrop, and Taylor. Ailisha is most proudly a farmer—a graduate of Farmshare Austin with experience growing organic vegetables for various fine dining restaurants in the Austin area, farm hand at Shepard’s Flock in Elgin, TX, herbalist, and 200 hr Trauma-Informed Registered Yoga Teacher.

As someone who spends her time outside stewarding the land, Ailisha is most excited to connect with Travis County Park staff to organize volunteers for TCPF’s Park Stewards Program. She will be bringing programming that integrates land stewardship, healing-centered engagement, and land-based education in our Travis County Parks to develop lifelong stewards of our TC Parks.