Briana Alfaro, Administrative Director of Programs & Partnerships, (she/her) is a multiracial, Mexican and Indigenous farmer, educator, writer, and activist who grew up in the Kumeyaay valley known as Escondido, CA. She delights in building community through food and farming—sparking warmth, healing, and transformation within herself and beyond. She co-creates educational offerings as Administrative Program Manager at Soul Fire Farm.
Her passion for land stewardship and agriculture is rooted in a long-held infatuation with food and cooking; in her family’s experience as campesino farmers and US farm workers; and in a love of nature cultivated by family camping trips as a child. She is a student of plant medicine, fiber arts, language justice, and soil. In addition to 20+ years of restaurant and farm experience, she has worked with National Young Farmers Coalition, Northeast Organic Farming Association of NY, and San Diego Food System Alliance. She holds a M.S. Food Studies from Syracuse University and a B.A. Journalism from Humboldt University.
Briana lives in unceded Gayogohó:nǫ˺ territory, in Ithaca, NY, with her partner and their cat.