Jamese is the first Director of Food Equity at Ecotrust. In this capacity, she oversees the organization's farm to institution initiatives while guiding the development of partnerships and new bodies of work at the intersections of food & land justice, soil regeneration, and climate resilience. She also serves as an Advisory Board member for the National Farm to School Network and on the Board of Directors for the Black Food Sovereingty Coalition. Originally from California, Jamese spent twenty years living and working in the greater Philadelphia area before returning West with her husband and two children in March 2019