By Micah Golmant

Faculty Mentor: Eric Gable

Abstract

KEY WORDS: Identity, Impression Management, Nonprofit, Urban Agriculture, Social Reproduction
In this paper, Golmant investigates the various ways in which employees at a nonprofit urban agriculture organization navigate their private and public identities in the context of their work; he then contrasts these with the identity of the formal organization itself. The author also seeks to understand the methods by which corporate bodies form identities through distributed literature and discourse, and how that corporate identity then interfaces with not just clients, but the very employees who make up and represent the organization in its day-to-day function.