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WHO WE ARE
Near Futures Projects is a set of experiments committed to creating something vibrant and delicious as capitalism dies and the future of this land unfolds.
We’re based in Apalachicola, Florida. We belong to the waterways and woods of the Gulf Coast, the Apalachicola National Forest, the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin and the Aucilla-suwanee-Ochlocknee River Basin.
The vision and work of NFP is part of the ever-evolving struggle for a different world, one where humans are in right relationship with the earth, each other, and all other living beings. Our work and vision grow out of abolitionist struggles, the Black Freedom Movement and the immigrant justice movement of this country, indigenous movements domestically and internationally for land and food sovereignty, and feminist values and principles.

Xochitl Bervera
Xochitl Bervera is a queer, mixed race, Latinx oyster farmer working to create a vibrant, delicious, sustainable, and inclusive local food system centered in the wisdom and legacies of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color communities.
Prior to oyster farming, Xochitl spent 25 years building community power and waging campaigns to end criminalization. Her work has contributed to the closure of prisons and jails, reduced the number of people behind bars, shifted policing and court system policies, and moved resources toward community-based systems of safety and wellness. She has incubated and founded 6 social justice organizations, led by those most impacted by criminalization, policing and incarceration in Louisiana and Georgia, including Families and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children (FFLIC), Women on the Rise, and the Solutions Not Punishment Collaborative. From 2013-2020, Xochitl directed the Racial Justice Action Center where she was a lead organizer and strategist with the Communities Over Cages: Close the Jail ATL Campaign.
Xochitl was trained as a historian at Sarah Lawrence College, a lawyer at NYU School of Law, a somatics practitioner with generative somatics, an organizer in the field from Oakland to the Bronx, New Orleans to Atlanta, and through the teachings and methodologies of the Center for Third World Organizing and mentors from the Black Freedom Movement and the Immigrant Justice Movement. She has trained at Soul Fire Farms and is a graduate of the Oyster Aquaculture course at the Wakulla Environmental Institute.
Kung Li
A lifelong Southerner born to an immigrant family, Kung Li's curious nature has moved them through the worlds of physics (theoretical quantum mechanics), law (as executive director of the Southern Center for Human Rights, recognized by American Lawyer as one of the nation's Top 50 Litigators Under 40), literature (author of the counterfactual novel Begin the World Over, published as part of AK Press's emergent strategies series), and oyster farming (deckhand and fixer of gear). They are a student of Chan Buddhism, lifter of heavy and odd objects, Special Advisor to Movement Law Lab, and an enthusiastic cook and eater of delicious food.

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