Community collaborations

In 2023, I supported the launch of UNM’s Chicana/o Studies garden project, Jardín-Ollin: Garden of Chicanx Culture and Wisdom. We were awarded a Food As Medicine grant from UNM’s Community Engagement Center to continue our efforts on food justice and garden knowledges.

As a Ph.D. student in Los Angeles, I sought to deepen my experience with political education and community organizing through my involvement with the Los Angeles Food Policy Council. From 2017-2020 I worked closely with LAFPC, first as a Food Policy Intern, then as a Curriculum Consultant and Program Evaluator for the Food Leaders Lab.

From 2020-2022, I worked as project coordinator of the Nutritional Values campaign at an Albuquerque-based food justice organization called Three Sisters Kitchen. In 2021, we launched the Nutritional Values campaign with local restaurants and our partner organizations and were able to share our originally-created materials and stories to shift narratives about the root causes of poverty in New Mexico.

My work is informed through experiences with student organizing in Albuquerque, primarily with organizations like the SouthWest Organizing Project and the Center for Social Sustainable Systems.