Natalia partners with community organizations across the state and the Americas who serve structurally disenfranchised farmers. This includes work to serve Latinx farmers and farmworkers in California; organic seed producers in the United States; urban BIPOC farmers; and agroecology more broadly throughout Latin America.  She is the co-founder of Farmer Campus, an online school for farmers. Leaning on seven years of experience, she currently writing on effective pedagogies for virtual farmer education.

 

Natalia is a Colombian immigrant and has a background in microbiology, cell biology, microscopy and science education. She has an A.S in Biology and Chemistry from Raritan Valley Community College, a B.S in Conservation and Natural Resources from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.A. in Geography at UC Davis. She has diverse field research experience in mycology, soil microbiology and diversified farming systems. She loves farming and spent three years working in vegetable production and five years running a small goat dairy. Currently living in San Francisco as she completes her dissertation, she hopes to someday start a homestead and continue to serve farmers through action-research.

 

 

 

Book Contributions

• Galvis, Ana Cecilia, Brooke Porter, Paul Roge, Leah Atwood, and Natalia Pinzon Jimenez. 2020. “10. Holistic Pedagogies for Social Change: Reflections from an Urban Agroecology Farmer Training.” In Urban Agroecology: Interdisciplinary Research and Future Directions, edited by Monika Egerer and Hamutahl Cohen, 1st ed. CRC Press. 
• Auer, M., Pinzon, N., Howard, GC. “Introduction to Part I: Imaging the Molecular Inventory”. Imaging Life: Biological Systems from Atoms to Tissues. Eds. Howard, Gary C., Brown, William E., Auer, Manfred. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2014. 7-14. Print.
• Auer, M., Pinzon, N., Howard, GC. “Introduction to Part II: Imaging Cellular and Tissue Structure”. Imaging Life: Biological Systems from Atoms to Tissues. Eds. Howard, Gary C., Brown, William E., Auer, Manfred. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2014. 169-178. Print.
• Auer, M., Pinzon, N., Howard, GC. “Introduction to Part III: Modeling of Complex Biological Functions”. Imaging Life: Biological Systems from Atoms to Tissues. Eds. Howard, Gary C., Brown, William E., Auer, Manfred. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2014. 391-396. Print.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

• Roge, P., Chuang, L., Pinzon, N, “Overcoming the challenges of an agroecological transition for smallholder farmers in China” Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene. 2021, Submission in Review
• Douds, D., J. Lee, L. Rogers, M. E. Lohman, N. Pinzon & S. Ganser. “Utilization of inoculum of AM fungi produced on-farm for the production of Capsicum annuum: A summary of seven years of field trials on a conventional vegetable farm.” Biological Agriculture & Horticulture: An International Journal for Sustainable Production Systems 28:2 (2012): 129-145. Print

Public Science Writing

• Atwood, L., Galvis, A,, Pinzon Jimenez, N. Roge, P., 2017, “Advancing on-farm climate resilience with citizen science” Iliea, Farming Matters https://www.ileia.org/2017/06/26/advancing-farm-climate-resilience-citizen/
• Pinzon, N., Edmunds, M., 2012, “Soil Life, Microbiology on the Farm” The New Farm, The Rodale Institute.  http://rodaleinstitute.org/soil-life-microbiology-on-the-farm/