Co-Director

Angela serves as Co-Director at Agroecology Fund. Angela is an agronomist from Florianopolis, Brazil. She has an M.Sc. in Use and Conservation of Plant Genetic Resources from the University of Birmingham, UK. She started her professional career in the non-governmental sector, providing technical support to agroecology projects, with a focus on community management of agrobiodiversity. Angela has more than two decades of experience as a consultant, and has worked with NGOs, the Brazilian government, and UN agencies such as the UNDP, FAO, and WFP. In the last 15 years, Angela has worked extensively on program/project monitoring and evaluation, in Brazil and internationally. Part of the Agroecology Fund’s Advisory Board from 2015 to 2019, she joined the AEF team as Program Director in October 2019. 

Co-Director

Daniel serves as Co-Director at Agroecology Fund. Daniel has worked in philanthropy for over three decades, channeling resources to community-led organizations and collaborations. Trained as a community organizer, he strengthened tenant organizations in public housing in Boston and then lived in El Salvador and Mexico for five years, working in support of social movements defending rights to land and water. He worked  as an on-farm trainer in a workers’ rights certification program and with Latin American water utilities to strengthen watershed conservation strategies. He holds a Master’s degree in City Planning from MIT and writes frequently on food and water issues for traditional and online media.

Director of Strategic Operations, Finance and Administration

Min is passionate about promoting sustainable living to address the planetary challenges we face today, particularly climate change and biodiversity loss. He holds a degree in engineering and  an MBA from the Manchester Business School, UK. His conviction that humanity will truly thrive if we alleviate suffering for all living beings has led him to co-create and direct initiatives in renewable energy, solid waste management, afforestation, water conservation, agriculture and education. He helped set up the National Coalition for Natural Farming, the largest network of its kind in India, to advance agroecology at scale. 

Operations Assistant

Catherine Dodaro is an agronomist from Laval University, Canada. She currently resides in Peru where she obtained a Master’s degree in sociology at the Pontifical Catholic University. Since 2017, she has been dedicated to agroecology and food sovereignty from a political and feminist perspective, working both in Argentina and Peru. She is the co-founder and current academic coordinator of Alsakuy Agroecológica, a space emerging as a youth movement advocating for the transformation of food systems. She has a particular interest in the socio-cultural elements of the agrarian sector, including its artistic manifestations, popular pedagogies and the fight for gender equality.

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Assistant

Bruno is a Brazilian agronomist graduated from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), in Florianopolis. His studies and research explored plant genetic resources. He  first worked with the Agroecology Fund w as an intern in early 2020 to support monitoring of  COVID-19 Emergency Grants.

Grant Lead

Allison Finnegan-Kihega has a decade of experience in project management, international development, and grantmaking. Allison resides in Colorado, initially the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Tribes’ territories. She has worked in direct care with organizations supporting at-risk youth and seniors aging in place. Allison completed her Masters in Development Practice in 2020 with a thesis focused on environmental justice and the role of backbone organizations. She has since been working with international grantmaking organizations to provide administrative and programmatic support for a diverse portfolio of Advisory Boards globally.

Resource Development Lead

At the Agroecology Fund, Fatimah is focused on resource mobilization to support our grantee partners. She is passionate about supporting and working alongside social movements committed to dismantling entrenched power to achieve systemic change. She holds a BA in English and Biology from New York University and a MA in International Relations, with concentrations in conflict resolution, development economics, and human security, from the Fletcher School. Prior to joining the Agroecology Fund, Fatimah worked across the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors on a range of issues including early childhood education, refugee rights, and at the intersection of corporate power and human rights.

Africa Regional Funds Coordinator

Tabara Ndiaye has more than 20 years of experience in international philanthropy, supporting rural women and their organizations in French-speaking Africa in the promotion of agroecology and the transition to agroecology. Tabara is active in various platforms at local, sub-regional, and regional levels of the African continent on rural women’s seeds and knowledge, land rights, climate justice, feminist agroecology, and healthy food systems. She has close links with the culture and environment of rural women and understands the challenges they face as well as their prospects for the future. Previously, she worked with the New Field Foundation for ten years, developing its grantmaking program for rural women and their organizations in French-speaking West Africa. Tabara was a Senior Program Officer at the American Jewish World Service (AJWS) responsible for Land, Water & Climate Justice, and Civil and Political Rights Programs in Senegal and DR Congo. She is a board member of the Fund for Global Human Rights and is a Strategic Advisor of the Global Fund for Women and The African Women’s Collaborative for Sustainable Food Systems.