Antonio Roman-Alcalá, Red Natural History Fellow
Antonio is an educator, researcher, writer, musician, and organizer based in Berkeley, California who has worked on issues of sustainable food systems for over 20 years. An Assistant Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at California State University East Bay, Antonio also conducts research with the UC-based California Organic, Agroecological, and Regenerative (COAR) Transitions Initiative. He co-facilitates the scholar collaborative Agroecology Research-Action Collective (ARC) and monthly political education gatherings known as Radical Agroecology Dinner and Discussion (RADD). His first book, North Stars of Emancipation: California’s Diverse Food and Farming Movements in Times of Racial Reckoning, is forthcoming from the MIT Press