Leilani Clark

Leilani (she/ella) joined LandPaths in August 2018 after experiencing the joy and community spirit of Bayer Farm. She began as the organization’s first Communications Lead before being promoted to Communications Manager in 2024. Leilani writes newsletters, impact reports, outreach materials, and press releases, facilitates the Right Relations committee, manages the website and social media, and guides overall communications strategy and vision for the organization. 

The daughter of a grocery store worker and a house painter, Leilani was the first in her family to graduate from college. Leilani has an M.F.A in Writing and Consciousness from California Institute of Integral Studies and a B.A. in Literature from University of California San Diego.

Leilani grew up in Hawaii and Los Angeles. She lived in San Diego, New Mexico, and Oakland before moving to Sonoma County. She began her career, after years of playing guitar in bands and working in cafes, as a public high school teacher. After that, she became a staff writer at the North Bay Bohemian, and then the editor of a local regional magazine. She was a California Endowment Health Reporting Fellow at USC Annenberg School for Journalism. Leilani’s journalism and essays have appeared at The Guardian,The Press Democrat, Mother Jones, Civil Eats, and other publications.

Leilani enjoys reading, karaoke, listening to music, going to shows, swimming, and being in nature, especially near the ocean, with family and friends. She is a proud mom of a seventh grader who plays in the honor band at Cesar Chavez Language Academy, a dual Spanish/English immersion school in Roseland.