Aaron Vargas

I have 10 years of experience working at the intersection of community food systems and racial equity. Previously, I was a farm worker on small farms in the Mid-Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area and managed a farmers market in Springfield, Ore. run by the Neighborhood Economic Development Corporation. As a biracial Chicano (Mexican-American), I bring an understanding of food system inequities and how privilege and oppression are maintained. As the program director for equity-centered food systems programmatic work at Ecotrust, I co-create new bodies of work at the intersections of food and land justice.