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Who we are.

​CUSAN is made up of farmers, NGOs, academics and philanthropists who have come together to support Cuba’s agroecology movement.  CUSAN is coordinated by the Vermont Caribbean Institute, which partners with a diverse range of Cuban and US institutions to implement programming.
Constituents of the network

Agricultural Justice Project | Vanya Goldberg
American University School of International Service | 
Garrett Graddy-Lovelace
Americas Media Initiative | Alexandra Halkin
Annals of Earth | Nancy Jack Todd
The Berry Center | Mary Berry
Bionutrient Food Association | Dan Kittredge
Blue Planet Consulting | Henry Gordon-Smith
Center for Environmental Farming Systems / North Carolina State University | Nancy Creamer
CODEPINK | Jodie Evans
Coffee Trust | Bill Fishbein

Conservation Law Foundation |Peter Shelley
Conway School of Landscape Design | Paul Cawood Hellmund
Eco Cuba Network | Pamela Montanaro
Environmental Defense Fund | Daniel Whittle
Experimental Farm Network | Nate Kleinman and Dusty Hinz
Fair Food Network | Oran Hesterman
Farm Hack: An Open Source Community For Resilient Agriculture | Dorn Cox
Finca Los Mangos Project | Lauren Hibbard and Yoel Trujillo
Food First | Eric Holt-Giménez
Gardener's Supply Company and Intervale Center| Will Raap
Glynwood | Dave Llewellyn
Hawthorne Valley Farm | Martin Ping
Healthy Living Market and Café | Nicole Driscoll
John Todd Ecological Design | John Todd
Maestra Film | Catherine Murphy
​Middlebury College | Molly Anderson
National Center for Appropriate Technology | Robert Maggiani
National Cooperative Business Association | Amy E. Coughenour Betancourt
Natural Capital Solutions | Hunter Lovins
Public Market Development | Aaron Pohl-Zaretsky
Remineralize The Earth | Joanna Campe
Rise & Root Farm | Karen Washington
Sequestering Carbon, Accelerating Local Economies (SCALE) | Anthony Flaccavento
Schumacher Center for a New Economics | Susan Witt*
Slow Food USA | Richard McCarthy
Soil4Climate | Seth Itzkan
SOL² Economics | Eric Leenson*
Southeastern African American Farmers' Organic Network | Tamara Jones
Tufts University Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning | Penn Loh
University of Massachusetts Urban Agriculture and Nutrition Program | Frank Mangan
University of New Hampshire Sustainability Institute | Tom Kelly
University of New Mexico-Gallup Heritage Farming Project | Warner Orozco-Obando
Urban Farming Institute | Glynn Lloyd
Vermont Caribbean Institute | Margarita Fernandez*
Vermont Law School, Center for Agriculture and Food Systems | Laurie Ristino
Vida Verde | Seth Matlick
W.K. Kellogg Foundation | Livia Marqués

Individuals
Rose Arruda
Linda Delgado
Peter Rosset*
Malik Yakini*
Nils McCune
Kalia and Marty Lydgate Driggs

* denotes advisor
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Network coordinator

Margarita Fernandez
Executive Director
Caribbean Agroecology Institute
 
Network advisors
 
Miguel Altieri | University of California, Berkeley
Greg Watson | Schumacher Center for a New Economics
Eric Holt-Giménez | Food First
Peter Rosset |Center for the Study of the Americas (CENSA) and ECOSUR, Mexico
Andrea Panaritis | The Christopher Reynolds Foundation
Catherine Murphy | Director/Producer at Maestra Film
Eric Leenson | SOL2 Economics
Rafael Betancourt | Colegio Universitario San Geronimo de La Habana
Livia Marqués | W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Judy Wicks | Local Living Economy 
Susan Witt | Schumacher Center for a New Economics
Malik Yakini |Organizer, Activist, Urban Farmer
 
Donors
 
The Christopher Reynolds Foundation
Ford Foundation
The Flora Family Foundation

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