She is also a community gardener and garden activist, working for the past 20 years to preserve New York’s communal public spaces from looming development. Magali also serves on the board of the New York City Community Garden Coalition, an advocacy group representing over 600 NYC community gardens and 20,000 gardeners and is a member of LUNGS (Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens), a coalition of community gardens in NYC’s Lower East Side working to create a Community Garden District. She has been featured on the BBC news, conducted workshops at the American Community Gardening Association’s conferences, participated in an international forum on Parks in Moscow, and conducted workshops in New York City’s GreenThumb Gardeners conferences. Youth Transforming the Land: Dig It & the St. Louis Youth Conservation Corps