K. Rashid Nuri is the executive director of Truly Living Well Natural Urban Farms. He lived in Southeast Asia for 3 years, Nigeria for 5 and Ghana for nearly 2. He has managed public, private and community-based food and agriculture businesses in over 30 countries around the world. Rashid also served four years as a Senior Executive in the Clinton administration including Deputy Administrator of the Farm Service Agency and Foreign Agricultural Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. He is a graduate of Harvard College, where he studied Political Science and has a M.S. in Plant and Soil Science from the University of Massachusetts.