Alejandra Cano

Alejandra Cano is a PhD student in the Native American Studies Department at UC Davis.

Her work focuses on the intersection between Culture, Food Sovereignty, Land Stewardship, and Native Science. She has been farming with TCC for the past years as part of the Native Foodways Team. She is passionate about growing food as it is a key to greater resilience, autonomy, and well-being. Alejandra graduated from UC Berkeley with a B.S. in Conservation and Resource Studies with a focus on Agro-Ecology. Since graduating in 2011, she has applied her skills as part of the Food and Environmental Justice movements in the greater Bay Area as well as abroad. Her experiences as a migrant, mestiza woman, farmer, Native American and Indigenous Studies scholar inform her efforts toward hemispheric unity of the indigenous people of the Americas. Alejandra is fluent in both Spanish and English and is excited to learn the Embera language.