Natalia Pinzon

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Natalia specializes in the agroecology as a means to reduce on-farm and global climate risk. Her doctoral research 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”.  It is a multi-sector collaboration and includes a guidebook for farmers and farm advisors to evaluate a farm and farming communities' risk to wildfires. She is currently developing a UC wide online course with Professor Mark Cooper called “Climate Change and Agriculture” for undergraduates across different majors and campuses.

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.  She is the co-founder of Farmer Campus, an online school for farmers. Leaning on seven years of experience, she currently writing on effective pedagogies for virtual farmer education. 

 

Natalia is a Colombian immigrant and has a background in microbiology, cell biology, microscopy and science education. She has an A.S in biology and Chemistry from Raritan Valley Community College and B.S in Conservation and Natural Resources from the University of California, Berkeley. She has diverse field research experience in mycology, soil microbiology and diversified farming systems. She loves farming and spent three years working in vegetable production and five years running a small goat dairy. She hopes to start a homestead after she completes her degree while continue to serve farmers through action-research.

 

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Book Contributions

  • Galvis, Ana Cecilia, Brooke Porter, Paul Roge, Leah Atwood, and Natalia Pinzon Jimenez. 2020. “10. Holistic Pedagogies for Social Change: Reflections from an Urban Agroecology Farmer Training.” In Urban Agroecology: Interdisciplinary Research and Future Directions, edited by Monika Egerer and Hamutahl Cohen, 1st ed. CRC Press. 
  • Auer, M., Pinzon, N., Howard, GC. “Introduction to Part I: Imaging the Molecular Inventory”. Imaging Life: Biological Systems from Atoms to Tissues. Eds. Howard, Gary C., Brown, William E., Auer, Manfred. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2014. 7-14. Print.
  • Auer, M., Pinzon, N., Howard, GC. “Introduction to Part II: Imaging Cellular and Tissue Structure”. Imaging Life: Biological Systems from Atoms to Tissues. Eds. Howard, Gary C., Brown, William E., Auer, Manfred. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2014. 169-178. Print.
  • Auer, M., Pinzon, N., Howard, GC. “Introduction to Part III: Modeling of Complex Biological Functions”. Imaging Life: Biological Systems from Atoms to Tissues. Eds. Howard, Gary C., Brown, William E., Auer, Manfred. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2014. 391-396. Print.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Public Science Writing