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Juliana is pursuing a PhD at the University of Vermont exploring just and sustainable food markets through participatory ethnographic research in southern Brazil. She intersects knowledge, place, development, and power to critically understand alternative food systems and support resistance against the corporate commodification of foods. Juliana was born in Bogotá, Colombia, migrated to Florida, USA, and has a bachelor’s in biology and a master’s in sociocultural anthropology. She is pursuing a certificate in ecological economics and is affiliated with UVM’s Institute for Agroecology and the Gund Institute for Environment. Juliana has been a schoolteacher in her beloved home country Colombia, and in the US, South Korea, Spain, and Trinidad and Tobago. Juliana loves snorkeling, sea turtles, arts, and caring communities. Her scholarly interests include political agroecology, political ecology, post-development, degrowth, post-growth, alternative food networks, Latin America, and participatory action research.