Claudia Navas

(she/her)

Claudia has a background in agriculture, community education, and program management. She has a Masters in Food Studies, focused on food policy and advocacy, and helped coordinate the NYU Food and Racial Equity (FARE) Collective for graduate students of color in the program. She has a combined eight years of farming experience in Pennsylvania, Long Island, and Brooklyn: from a 20+ acre orchard and organic vegetable farm, an 85-acre poultry farm, to small-scale organic urban farms and gardens. 

Claudia loves growing and preserving food and learning about the medicinal properties of roots, leaves, fruit, and flowers. She is a committed composter and lovingly maintains an indoor worm bin. She believes food is power and experiences most joy with her hands in the soil. Her hope is to be in healing community with those that call for social and environmental justice and an end to racial and patriarchal oppression and violence.

She has roots in present-day Nicaragua with Black, Indigenous, and Spanish ancestry. She currently lives in Brooklyn and is most at home near sea, salt, and sand.