Shorlette Ammons

Week of June 13, 2026

Shorlette (she/her), is a native of Beautancus, North Carolina, where she grew up in a large family of farmworkers, cooks, storytellers and spades players. She currently serves as Co-Executive Director of Farm Aid, an organization founded by musician and artist Willie Nelson, that seeks to raise money and awareness of the plight of family farmers to keep them on their land. Farm Aid hosts an annual festival where we bring together music, fellowship and Homegrown© Concessions to raise funds to support our grantmaking efforts. She also serves on the board of Land Loss Prevention Project, an organization based in Durham, North Carolina, that works to save and preserve family farmland. She also is a former children’s librarian. In her work and daily life, Ammons seeks to lift up and be informed by familial ancestors like her grandparents, Grandma Adell and Grandaddy Rasper, daddy June, aunts Annette, Lou and Viv; uncles Buck, Ross and L.J., cousin Brandon, and others as well as freedom fighters like Fannie Lou Hamer and educators like George Washington Carver. Ammons and her daughter still call North Carolina home.  (Photo © Bliss Floccare)

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