Garden-based Santa Cruz learning nonprofit Life Lab reduced its staff of 36 down to eight this summer after expected funding didn’t come through. Last week, the organization announced new leadership and is refocusing its programming.
As Life Lab’s new executive director, following 17 years as the organization’s education director, Whitney Cohen, will be helping the Santa Cruz nonprofit refocus on its decades-long mission of training garden educators nationally after a challenging summer of nearly 30 layoffs due to loss of a major contract with Pajaro Valley Unified School District and other funding sources. Read more from Lookout Santa Cruz.