2022 Speaker Profile: Xenia D'Ambrosi

Meet Xenia D'Ambrosi, our local host, who will bring her design talents to the Slow Flowers Summit on Day One. Contributor Jo Ellen Meyers-Sharp recently interviewed Xenia D'Ambrosi for this Slow Flowers Summit feature.

Gardening came into Xenia D’Ambrosi’s life during a health crisis. While undergoing breast cancer treatments, she began volunteering at local farms, including at the Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture in Pocantico Hills, New York. Having her hands in the soil was therapeutic and ultimately, life-changing.

Xenia's diagnosis and treatment coincided with the final months of a successful financial banking career in commercial real estate finance. She left that professional chapter in 2010 as her life’s demands changed along with personal priorities. “I was working all the time and I had two kids at home who needed me,” she explains.