Typical Day

Two out of three days, I work in the Local First Arizona office. The third day is spent working a local event within the community.

Each day I walk in to the office, I am eagerly greeted by the LFA staff. The team sits around one large rectangular table with their computers. This setup ensures constant collaboration, and a friendly environment amongst the team. I grab an open seat, and set up my lap top. 

Steve, the LFA local food systems coordinator, and my supervisor, gathers our local foods team. We always begin our group work with a team meeting. We discuss goals, ideas, game plans, and work to be done. I love that we start the day this way, because we always try to stay in the loop with what is going on, and make sure that our team is efficient.

The rest of the day is spent mostly working independently. Depending on the project I am working on, my independent work includes research, blogging, data entry, watching webinars, and preparing for our weekend events. 

Although most of my work is independent, my team is collectively working together to accomplish a project. We each tackle a portion of the project, and collaboratively piece it together to make an impacting message. Our work is dedicated towards reaching out and educating the consumers of our local economy. All the work inside the office, by all the LFA teams, really affects the overall goal we are trying to accomplish. 

LFA is leading a social movement, and there are endless opportunities for reaching out and communicating our goal. The work environment at LFA is very friendly, encouraging, and very collaborative. It definitely doesn't feel like work when I enter the LFA office.