Juan Quinonez Zeapada is a Program Associate on the Resilient Agriculture and Ecosystems team. His passion for a more just and equitable agricultural space stems from his personal experiences working alongside his father on Mississippi beef cattle farms. His passions led him to co-create the mutual aid fund, FUERZA Farmworkers’ Fund to support farmworkers in March 2020. Juan is a recent graduate of Dartmouth College where he majored in Geography with a minor in Education. He is a published author, young scholar, and brings in years of organizing with organizations from the South to the East Coast.

Juan is also the Community Voices Speaker for Hispanic Heritage Month.