Sustainable Agriculture & Food Policy

As an organizer and researcher, Hasmik is passionate about supporting food sovereignty movements in California and Armenia. She approaches this work with lenses from both the natural sciences and feminist studies.

Summer Sullivan is a PhD candidate in environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Broadly, her work examines how increasingly digital landscapes affect workers and ecologies. She is also an avid organizer with the graduate student workers union (UAW 4811), member of her department’s Diversity Committee, teaching assistant, undergraduate mentor, and engaged scholar.

Landry Guillen is a first-generation graduate student and Master of Forestry candidate at Yale School of the Environment. Her interests exist at the nexus of urban and community forestry, regenerative food systems, and environmental justice...

Selena Rowan is a master's student in Energy Technology and Policy at Cal Poly Humboldt, focusing on rural climate resilience and holistic land management. She combines data modeling and policy analysis with a commitment to community health, ecological restoration, and environmental stewardship to develop innovative solutions for healthy forests in California.

Sydney Clements is a researcher and community organizer based in Eastern Connecticut. Her work focuses on the intersection of farmer viability, food access and environmental sustainability.

Alejandra Cano is a transnational emerging scholar cross-pollinating Indigenous ways of knowing, agroecology, and ecological economics to conserve stingless honeybees.