Alejandro Vélez Ramírez

Alejandro is one of the co-founders of Back to the Roots, an organic food & gardening company they founded in 2010 after discovering how to grow gourmet mushrooms on recycled coffee grounds. The company’s intent is to start with early learning and donating to underfunded schools in Black and brown communities, and long term, creating a more equal playing field for over time to eliminate disadvantages and provide access to a small business system of capital, network, and services that all entrepreneurs need. Since then, Back to the Roots has evolved from an urban mushroom farm to a thriving business on a mission to reconnect families back to where food comes from through an award winning line of Ready to-Eat breakfast cereals and Ready-to-Grow Indoor Gardening Kits.