Dani Slabaugh

Dani Slabaugh

Template:TOCnestleft Dani Slabaugh is an Austin, Texas activist. She arrived in Austin after graduating from Hampshire College, with a degree focused on environmental justice. After researching the ways that average folks interact with resources in the first and third world, she concluded that there were two things that would help the world have a brighter future: biking and food gardening.

Dani served as an Americorps, or domestic peace corp member, in Austin schools teaching organic gardening and science classes in high needs schools. Throughout her term she sought out to learn as much as possible about growing food in Central Texas. She also became involved as a collective member with the Austin Yellow Bike Project, and spent several years coordinating volunteer shops and teaching mechanics classes to youth.

Shortly after her term ended, Yard to Table Gardens was born. Dani has helped Austinites learn about soil health, water management, and food cultivation for over a year, and hopes to continue for years to come. She is passionate about these technologies, and truly sees them as a key aspect to securing healthy ecology, communities, economies, and people in the coming years.

She has served as an intern at le Ferme du Bec Helloin, in Normandy France, and the OLCERI project on the Pine Ridge Reservation, in South Dakota, completed advanced coursework in watershed ecology with Craig Spoonholtz at Quail Springs Permaculture, in Southern California, and learned from mentors around the country, from earthbag domes in the California Desert to natural building sites in Michigan.

Dani also serves as an instructor for Sustainable Food Center’s gardening courses, and Workshops with Urban Patchwork Neighborhood Farms, Design Build Live, and others.

BLM

Members of group called Undoing Racism Austin went door-to-door in South Austin neighborhood, September 2015.

The Ku Klux Klan left pamphlets at residents’ doorsteps about a week before.

Dani Slabaugh said she was with a group fighting against the racist message of the KKK.

Slabaugh was one of more than a dozen white volunteers with the nonprofit group Undoing Racism Austin who went door-to-door in a South Austin neighborhood near the intersection of Manchaca Road and Chappell Lane, asking residents to post signs that said, “Black Lives Matter.”

Volunteers with the Undoing Racism Austin White Caucus, Rachel Manning and Dani Slabaugh, put signs in supporter's front yards .

Robin Schneider, an activist with Undoing Racism Austin, said the volunteers went to a few hundred houses Sunday and got 43 residents to agree to have “Black Lives Matter” signs in their neighborhood.

Revolutionary Strategies to Beat the Rising Right Wing

Revolutionary Strategies to Beat the Rising Right Wing, was a nationwide conference call organized by Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Sunday October 30, 2016.

What's the nature of this right-wing threat? What has this election cycle changed about the political terrain we're fighting on? How do we need to prepare for whats coming after the election? Hear about these crucial questions from our panel of top political strategists, including Nelini Stamp, Bill Fletcher, Jr., Linda Burnham, and Sendolo Diaminah.

Those indicating interest in attending, on Facebook included Dani Slabaugh.

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