Dr. Mae Hey organizes weekly gatherings to help people build or return to their relationship with Land. Her work consists of teaching people to recognize plant relatives, to see opportunities with them, and to reciprocate care to them. Additionally, she teaches cooking workshops to promote sustainability through kincentric ecology and close wellness inequalities involving food. She also serves Virginia Tech as an Assistant Professor, a Faculty Fellow for their Office of Inclusion and Diversity, a Faculty Affiliate for their Food Studies Program, and a Faculty Fellow for their Center for Food Systems and Community Transformation.
Taking Up Space 