Sweet Water Foundation
Jia Li Lok Pratt serves as the Chief Operating Officer at Sweet Water Foundation since July 2015 and has been a Principal at Axil L3C since January 2014. Previous roles include Network Curator at Chicago Learning Exchange from January 2018 to June 2019, Fellow at World Business Chicago for a brief period in late 2017, and Managing Director of KIPP Through College and Chief Development Officer at KIPP Chicago from October 2010 to December 2015. Jia Li Lok Pratt also held various positions at Deloitte from September 2002 to October 2010, including Senior Manager and Senior Consultant. Prior experience includes co-founding Third World Cafe, an independent coffeehouse in Chicago, and serving as School Support Manager at KIPP Foundation. Educational qualifications include an MBA in Management and Organizations, and Nonprofit Management from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and a B.S. in Human Service Studies from Cornell University.
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Sweet Water Foundation
At Sweet Water Foundation, our mission is to democratize, globalize, and commercialize urban agriculture practices for resilient 21st century communities via hands-on, real-world learning grounded in concepts of community, equity, transformation and resilience. We do this by developing and delivering intergenerational and interdisciplinary educational and career programming that incorporates historical, technological, scientific, artistic, and cultural components into a project-based learning approach accelerated by open data platforms. Focusing on the potential of urban agriculture as a vehicle for community development, Sweet Water Foundation’s outreach initiatives are grounded upon the central theme of turning waste into community resource. Sweet Water Foundation’s programs provide a vibrant environment for hands-on learning in a space that embodies the nexus between inspiration, education, and action. It is vital that young people understand how and why the city has evolved and how it may come to look in the future. As such, our goal at Sweet Water is to nurture a culture that facilitates the acquisition of learning, tools and collaborations necessary to bring about transformative change. Sweet Water Foundation utilizes an exponential growth model for maximum impact by embedding our programming within existing networks within communities. We work to catalyze and cultivate innovative spaces that emphasize the relationship between inspiration, education, action and innovation by supporting STE[A+]M education for the emerging industry of urban agriculture. Our model includes a growing network of Aquaponics Innovation Centers, Urban Agriculture STE[A+]M Hubs, and robust hyper-local partnerships locally, regionally, nationally, and globally.