Environmental Leadership Program

Andrea Ferich is the Greenhouse Manager for The Heart of Camden, a community development corporation in the Waterfront South neighborhood of Camden, NJ. In addition to directing healthy educational community building activities at a greenhouse, garden, and breadoven she works as a community organizer in South Camden. She helped the Heart of Camden to develop an Environment Division to be a model for restorative environmental justice through community-based urban ecosystem renewal. When she isn't propagating plants with the neighborhood or teaching art and gardening she seeks decorative solutions for proactive environmental change. She has most recently worked on the Waterfront South Neighborhood Revitalization Plan, while working with local, and state officials to discuss land-use related to Delaware riverfront and the South Jersey Port Corporation. She is always hawk-counting in Waterfront South.