Juliana (she/her) is from Northeastern Brazil, from the territory of the Cariri People. She is passionate to help connect people with food, farming and the environment. She believes that the food system is not disconnected from the natural ecosystem.

     By connecting people to local food and farming, one of the ways to promote farm and food justice, we are shortening the gap between people and their local environment and community. There are so many barriers to becoming a farmer, where land costs are high, and conventional ways of running farms make it difficult or nearly impossible for people with fewer resources to build their own careers and farming business.

With almost ten years of developing and implementing a diversity of educational programs in food justice non-profit organizations in Recife, Brazil and New York, she has worked to support farmers by coordinating, training, and managing programs with agroecology, agroforestry, natural resources management in farming, wanting to build more equitable, diverse, sustainable food system.