Abiodun Henderson is on a mission to love on Black people. Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, to a Liberian mother and a father who was a member of the Black Panthers, she was both taught to love herself and inspired to create change in her community.

As an adult, Henderson moved to Atlanta, which she describes as a mecca for Black culture. The idea came to her after being inspired by her participation with Malik Rahsaan and the Occupy The Hood movement, an organization geared toward creating programs in your own community. So she established her first community garden back in the summer of 2012.