Luis Medina (he/him)
Luis joins Young Farmers with a background in nonprofit financial management and food systems. Previously, he managed operations and finance at Edible Schoolyard NYC and most recently served as a senior consultant with Nonprofit Finance Fund. Luis teaches undergraduate courses on food and culture, holds a B.S. in accounting and business management and an M.A. […]
Carolina Mueller (she/her)
Carolina is a tenacious cook, gardener, potter, weekend rancher, and food systems practitioner. From working in food service, to nonprofits and farms for over a decade, she is passionate about bridging big-picture policy and people’s lived experiences. Caro holds a Master’s of Public Affairs with a focus in agriculture and food systems with an eye […]
Stephanie Fenty (she/her)
Stephanie hails from the Chicago suburbs but began supporting local and sustainable food systems when living in Central Illinois. Now based in Miami, she has experience ranging from administration, fundraising, communications, and organizational operations to providing the support and infrastructure for farmer training programs, starting a farmers market, and organizing a national campaign celebrating farmers […]
Payge Solidago (she/they)
As the Michigan Organizer, Payge supports current and aspiring farmers to uplift their voices through policy advocacy. Payge is passionate about food sovereignty and agriculture as liberation. She has worked as a farmhand, farm manager, and agriculture youth educator across the state of Michigan and holds a B.S. in Biology, Health, and Society from the […]
Jac Wypler (they/she)
Jac (or Jaclyn) helps facilitate the Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network (FRSAN) in the Northeast. Jac has worked in agriculture for a decade – on farms, with non-profits, and in education. Jac received a Ph.D. in Sociology at University of Wisconsin-Madison for their research on social power and resistance strategies in Midwest farming communities. […]
Megan Davey (she/her)
Megan grew up in the Four Corners region of the Southwest and is inspired by working to make local and regional food systems more holistic, inclusive, and equitable. Prior to joining Young Farmers, Megan worked as a food security coordinator for a small nonprofit and researched issues of agricultural labor in Colorado. She now helps […]
Lytisha Wyatt (she/her)
Lytisha comes to Young Farmers with several years of social media management, vegetable and livestock farming, poultry processing, and food service industry experience. Lytisha graduated from Brown University with a B.A. in Health and Human Biology, where she focused on how the mainstream media and social biases impact dominant understandings of health and diet.
Vanessa García Polanco (she/her)
Vanessa Garcia Polanco co-designs the strategy and implementation of Young Farmers’ policy campaigns, ensuring we are pursuing and advocating for equity-driven, farmer-centric research, policy, and programmatic interventions. She serves as the organizational council member and co-chair of the Farming Opportunities & Fair Competition Committee of the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition. She has previously worked with […]
Katherine Un (they/she)
Katherine is passionate about finding creative ways to connect people to power in the movement for a brighter farm and food future. Before joining Young Farmers, Katherine worked with the Organization for Competitive Markets to engage farmers and ranchers to fight against the ever-increasing corporate interests in the U.S. food system and with the French […]
Erika Rincon (she/her)
Erika comes to the National Young Farmers Coalition with a diverse agricultural background that includes farming experience in the Hudson Valley, Long Island, and Brooklyn, New York. Since leaving the fields, Erika has worked on a variety of food justice initiatives. She holds a B.A. in History and Economics from SUNY Purchase, where she studied […]