Meet the Team

 
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ADASHA TURNER

Founder

Adasha Turner is a community‑rooted systems thinker whose work centers on relational stability, sovereignty, and midstream resilience in food systems. Her background spans neurodiagnostics, trauma‑patterned systems understanding, and decades of community‑based education and stewardship.

She founded Modest Family Solutions to create spaces where families, youth, and community partners can engage in land‑based learning, agroecology, and collective care. Her lived experience and scientific training inform the organization’s approach to community‑rooted food systems work.

In her current season, Adasha’s focus is on authorship, heritage, healing, and supporting environments where relational stability is essential for continuity. Her work centers on writing, reflection, and contributing to community‑rooted spaces in ways that honor rest, lineage, and long‑term resilience.

 
 
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Kamilah Uddin

Web Designer

Kamilah is an artist, entrepreneur and homeschooler with program management and research training.

She holds a Masters degree from Kent State University and a Bachelors from The University of Akron, and her professional trajectory spans from audiology, speech-language pathology, English language teaching, to coding and User Experience design and research for Virtual and augmented reality platforms. 

Kamilah is deeply fascinated by human expression and the artistic mediums through which we all communicate. She is passionate about education, entrepreneurship, activism, and creative expression. When she’s not facilitating magic for amazing non-profits, Kamilah enjoys spending time writing, painting, and growing her business.

 
 
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Duha Mohamed

Vice President -Youth Empowerment Network

Host: Unapologetically Black and Muslim Podcast

Duha is a UW Bothell graduate with a degree in law economics and public policy with a minor in human rights. While focusing her studies on prison studies, she’s a current sponsor at Monroe corrections, trying to bring awareness to prison issues and working on a reentry program specific to the incarcerated Muslim population.

She is also Chair of the diversity and inclusion committee at the Muslim Association of Puget Sound, MAPS, where she’s working to bring change to her local mosque. She also works closely with the youth, specifically black youth, helping to empower, educate, and amplify their voices.

Duha’s passion for social justice and social change is her drive and motivation, but also hopes to create safe spaces where she and her black community not only survive but also thrive.