Jøn Kent

jøn kent’s principal aim is to be of help. His life’s work focuses on serving the community through acting, academia, activism, and activating sustainable spaces. He started his professional career in his passion of theatre then quickly moved into doing commercial, TV and film work. He now focuses his artistry in the local Detroit theatre scene.

As the Co-Founder of Sanctuary Farms, he works to close the food loop by turning food waste into nutritious compost and in turn uses that compost to cultivate organic produce. And as the Executive Director of Sacred Spaces, a nonprofit organization that works to bring food sovereignty and healing nature-scapes for historically disadvantaged communities. jøn is heavily involved in policy and organizing. His efforts along with other food justice advocates led to the creation of the City of Detroit’s Director of Agriculture position.

He’s currently an Urban and Regional Planning master’s student at the University of Michigan as a Transformative Food Systems (TFS) Fellow and Sustainability Fellow – graduating in Spring 2025. He holds an undergraduate degree in Sociology from UCLA. As an environmental and restorative justice advocate, he sits on various boards like the Sustain our Future Foundation’s Reparative Land Collective Advisory Board, the City of Detroit’s Detroit Waste Diversion Advisory Committee (DWDAC) and the Water Consortium.