Arika Freeman-Gritter serves in New Entry's Food Hub as a part of the Commonwealth Corps Program run by the Massachusetts Service Alliance. Through this program she will be contributing to New Entry's work, particularly the mobile market, from August 2025-June 2026. She holds a BA from Haverford College in Anthropology and completed a thesis related to the impacts of home gardening on individuals' understandings of our food system grounded in food justice, environmental justice, and anti-diet culture work. She also has experience working as a farmer through past internships and is passionate about increasing people's access and knowledge of home gardening and the joys that it can provide. In her free time, she enjoys making art and spending time outside.