Natalia Pinzón

Natalia Pinzón Jiménez specializes in agroecology as a means to reduce on-farm and global climate risk. As a PhD Candidate in Geography at UC Davis, she focuses on how California farmers are preparing for, responding to and recovering from wildfires. Her action-research project involves the development of an hybrid (online and in-person) course “Farming through wildfire season”. This multi-sector collaboration, includes a guidebook for farmers on how to evaluate agricultural risk to wildfires.

As a Colombian immigrant working in three continents, she has seen the diversity of ways that farmers and peasants are impacted by and responding to climate change. In partnership with renowned agroecologist, Dr. Clara Nicholls, she designed an award winning course to support farmers through agroecological climate resilience planning. Now she is developing an online course with the University of California called “Climate Change and Agriculture”.

Natalia partners with community organizations across the state and the Americas who serve structurally disenfranchised farmers. This includes work to serve Latinx farmers and farmworkers in California; organic seed producers in the United States; urban BIPOC farmers; and agroecology more broadly throughout Latin America.

As a biologist and science education specialist, Natalia has created three web-based learning communities, built 30 online curriculum modules and led four online certificate programs which have supported over 1,500 multicultural farmers. She is the co-founder of Farmer Campus, an online school and learning hub for farmers.