Violet Reed is the Executive Director for MEVO. She has been actively involved with MEVO since 2017 when she was a summer Farm Crew Intern. After growing with the organization in various roles, she took over as Executive Director in January 2020. Violet graduated from Seton Hall in December of 2018 with a major in English and a minor in Environmental Studies. During her time at Seton Hall, she implemented a campus-wide environmental movement which led to campus-wide changes.

Post her fall 2018 graduation, Violet spent four months at Punta Mona, a permaculture botanical farm and retreat center, on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. There she received her Permaculture Design Certificate and spent her time volunteering by living with a community of volunteers tending to the land and assisting in the hospitality end of operations. In 2023 Violet received an additional Permaculture Design Certificate through Whole Systems Design and in 2024 will be continuing her studies through an herbal mentorship program with Mindful Wilderness as well as with Ecoversity through a 6-Month Herbalism program, on a scholarship.

 A driving force of Violet’s work is her belief that everyone has the right to live in and enjoy a clean and healthy environment. She feels systemic change happens when people are involved in community-level efforts, like those at MEVO!

When she’s not at MEVO, Violet can be found studying herbalism, furiously preserving the season’s bounty, climbing and trail running, or lost in a good book!