Kessi Watters Kimball is a Mi’kmaq food and medicine producer who descends from the Listuguj First Nation. She currently serves as the Food Sovereignty Director at Bomazeen Land Trust, an organization dedicating to rematriating ancestral Abenaki/ Wabanaki lands and waters, and to enabling Abenaki/ Wabanaki people to resume their traditional stewardship roles for those historically, spiritally, and ecologically significant places. Kessi is also a community organizer and foundation-builder with Eastern Woodlands Rematriation (EWR), a grassroots collective led entirely by Indigenous two-spirits, indigequeer, womxn, and tribal families that supports rematriation through the advancement of sustainable food and economic systems.

The Mawiomi Garden, an Indigenous-led community food sovereignty project of EWR, initiates and helps sustain existing community-led food and medicine projects across tribal communities in the Northeast. In its first three years of operations, the Mawiomi Garden supported five Indigenous youth apprentices, created a poultry and butchering operation, and cultivated 5 acres on the Sandy River, in the unceded Wabanaki territory now known as Starks, Maine.

Kessi also serves on the Farmer Advisory Board for Cultivemos (formerly known as FRSAN-NE, the Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network Northeast) and is a member of the 2022-2023 cohort of Soul Fire Farm’s Braiding Seeds Fellowship.