About Henry Obispo

Henry Obispo is a Social-Entrepreneur, creating a sustainable revolution around food and agricultural-technology. He focuses on equitable solutions for the realities of food deserts and food apartheid in urban environments. His vision is to create new sustainable ecosystems that close gaps that have existed for generations, develop innovative approaches to tending and caring for the planet and its people, and bring forth solutions to the pertinent existential problems of our time.

After receiving a fully funded scholarship up to Ph.D., from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Henry completed his B.A. from Binghamton University and finished his graduate studies at New York University. 

He is the founder of ReBORN FARMS: agricultural technology based urban farms in the heart of the South Bronx. ReBORN FARMS focuses on rebuilding food systems to create access and equity for populations hyper-locally. The mission of ReBORN FARMS is to provide the opportunity for those in the community to empower themselves, gaining sovereignty through growing food, employment, and education for an inclusive, sustainable, eco-forward reality for them and for the planet. 

He is also the Eco-Gastronomer and Founder of Born Juice, an ecological plant-based, and zero-waste social enterprise, aiming towards a carbon-neutral reality. Born’s main objective is centering hyper-local and circularity as models that truly serve traditionally disinvested and marginalized communities. The innovative approach of farm to table developed as ‘Eco-Gastronomy,’ an all-encompassing term that the company drives home to showcase and invoke the interconnectivity of ecology, food, food systems, access, plants, animals and humanity – all in relationship – under that umbrella.