2024 Community Food Systems Fellowship

Vital Village Networks is thrilled to announce the ten emerging local leaders that have been selected to participate in the 2024 Community Food Systems Fellowship

2024 Fellowship

Community Food Systems Fellows

Vital Village Networks is thrilled to announce the ten emerging local leaders that have been selected to participate in the 2024 Community Food Systems Fellowship program! This year’s fellows include:

Isha Aran (she/her)
Three Sisters Kitchen
Albuquerque, NM

tara rodriguez besosa (they/them)
El Departamento de La Comida de Puerto Rico
Cauguas, PR

Carmen Alcantara Gonzalez (she/her)
Fresh Food Connect
Denver, CO

K. Melchor Hall (she/her)
Global Village Farms
Auburn, MA

Roberto Nutlouis (he/him)
Nihikeya
Pinon, AZ

Nia Nyamweya (she/her)
Beauty Blooms Farms
Silver Spring, MD

Cecilia Polanco (they/them)
Pupusas for Education
Durham, NC

Amara Ullauri (they/them)
Ayni Herb Farm
Millerton, NY

Bilal Walker (he/him)
Al-Munir's Farms
Newark, NJ

rivianna zeller (he/they)
dream of wild health
Hugo, MN

For questions, please contact jlaura@vitalvillage.org.

This program is supported by a grant through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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