Our Team

Sue Sie, Director

Environmental advocate, architect, and founder of Dirty Gaia, Sue is passionate about inspiring environmental awareness and action in the Hudson Valley. Her lifelong love of growing vegetables combined with a deep respect for living systems provide a unique platform as she devotes her time to promoting ecological awareness and community resilience. Along with spearheading the launch of a gleaning program to distribute excess produce from home and community gardens to local pantries, she leads the Rhinebeck Community Garden, and is working towards creating an educational hub there for youth and the larger community. In addition, Sue co-founded the Morton Seed Library in Rhinecliff, which engages locals in seed stewardship practices that strengthen agricultural, cultural, and biological diversity. With the support of the Morton Memorial Library, Sue created programming for the Rhinecliff Sustainability Series.

A past fellow of the Good Work Institute who also completed training in ecological literacy through the Omega OCSL, Sue is Director of Dirty Gaia (formerly Backyard to Table), an organization which provides programming focused on earth stewardship, environmental awareness and food growing. Sue is also a steering committee member of the Partners for Climate Action HV.

Sue’s vision is to use her growing sustainability initiative as a springboard to connect people and their communities to the environment in a deep and lasting way- ultimately generating much-needed momentum throughout the region as she works to build community resilience and promote ecological repair.