Sustainable Opportunities Summit - 2010

Ietef Vita Bio

Ietef Vita

Urban Farming & Blue and Yellow Logic

Site Manager and Community Coordinator & Eco-Cultivator

Ietef Hotep Vita is a Denver native, hailing from the historic 5 points area and has been a long time community activist. He has worked with the Pan African Arts Society as a youth coordinator for various film festivals they have hosted, with Café Nuba, performing spoken word and doing promotions for their renowned poetry events, and with Slam Nuba, as a poet and disc jockey for their monthly poetry slams.

In addition to the entertainment realm, Ietef has always been heavily involved in education. He has taught various after school programs focused on Hip Hop culture with Swallow Hill Music School and Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Theater. He is the founder of the Brown Suga Youth Fest, an annual event that brings together holistic healers, educators, artists and the youth for presentations, discussion and networking. He is an educator for the African American Studies college preparatory course for Metro State College at Thomas Jefferson High School for the spring 2010 semester.

He is also an Eco-Cultivator for the local organization Blue and Yellow Logic whose focus is diversifying the “green” movement. In this position he introduced gardening, recycling, composting and other environmental lessons to 20 high risk young adults during the 2009 growing season. Ietef is an organic gardener with the East Side Growers Collective and is working as the Site Manager and Community Coordinator for the Denver Metro Area for Urban Farming. Urban Farming is an organization based out of Detroit, Michigan focused on building community gardens all over the country. He is securing new community garden sites in food deserts across the city in which he will engage the community; teaching them how to grow food, maintain the land, build compost, and harvest. He will also be a grower at the new Growhaus green house project in Swansea-Elyria, cultivating worms, compost and an aquaponics project. His most recent artistic project is a music album entitled “The Teacher’s Lounge” it features songs promoting environmental and social justice to the youth; it is set to release in February 2010.

He has coordinated a panel for the Denver Green Festival entitled “Going Green, Living Bling” in April 2009 which focused on redefining the image of wealth for a sustainable future. At the November 2009 San Francisco Green Festival he gave a lecture entitled “Big Chains and Green Thangs” speaking on how young activists are sharing their experiences and how healthy living is linked to the well-being of our planet. He has been invited back to speak at the spring San Francisco Green Festival in April 2010. From his Green Festival panel and lectures to “The Teacher’s Lounge” project, Ietef is spreading awareness, because it is his belief that to truly go “green” we must start by redefining the image of wealth and health in the eyes of our youth.

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