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Montenegro de Wit, Maywa - CV

Maywa Montenegro de Wit Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management University of California, Berkeley 130 Mulford Hall Berkeley, California 94704 USA

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EDUCATION University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley California Ph.D. Environmental Science, Policy, and Management Thesis: Breeding Grounds for Biodiversity: Renewing Crop Genetic Resources in an Age of Industrial Food Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA M.S., Science Writing Thesis: Rice: How the Most Genetically Versatile Grain Conquered the World Williams College, Williamstown, MA B.A., Biology, magna cum laude, phi beta kappa Thesis: Construction of a Histidine-tagged form of VirD4, the putative ‘coupling protein’ in the type IV secretion system of Agrobacterium tumefaciens

EMPLOYMENT 2018 – 2019 Spring 2018 Spring 2018 Fall 2017 2013 – present 2003 – present 2012 – 2013 2009 – 2011 2009 – 2011 2008 – 2009 2007 – 2008 2006 – 2007

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of California, Davis (project: CRISPR-ing Agriculture: producing science, seeds, and pathways of development) Graduate Student Instructor for Professor De Master, University of California, Berkeley Graduate Student Researcher for Professor Iles, University of California, Berkeley Graduate Student Researcher for Professors Iles and De Master, University of California, Berkeley Communications Coordinator, Diversified Farming Systems Center, Berkeley Food Institute, University of California, Berkeley Freelance Science Journalist (part-time) Graduate Student Extension Researcher, Berkeley Food Institute, UC Berkeley Senior Editor, Seed Magazine, New York, NY Editor, Visualizing.org, Seed Media Group, New York, NY Associate Editor, Seed Magazine, New York, NY Assistant Editor, Seed Magazine, New York, NY Editorial Assistant, Seed Magazine, New York, NY

PUBLICATIONS Peer-reviewed Articles 1. Montenegro de Wit, M. 2017. Beating the Bounds: How Does ‘Open Source’ Become a Commons for Seed? Journal of Peasant Studies. Online first, October 25. (View PDF) 1

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2. Montenegro de Wit, M. 2017. Stealing Into the Wild: Conservation Science, Plant Breeding, and the Makings of New Seed Enclosures. Journal of Peasant Studies 44(1): 169-212. (View PDF) 3. Montenegro de Wit, M. and A. Iles. 2016. Toward Thick Legitimacy: Creating a Web of Legitimacy for Agroecology. Elementa Journal. (View PDF) 4. Garbach, K., J.C. Milder, F.A.J. DeClerck, M. Montenegro de Wit, L. Driscoll, and B. GemmillHerren. 2016. Closing Yield and Nature Gaps: Multi-Functionality in Five Systems of Agro-Intensification. International Journal of Agricultural Science. 1-22. (Open access) 5. Montenegro de Wit, M. 2016. Banking on Wild Relatives. Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture 16(1): 6-14. (View PDF) 6. Montenegro de Wit, M. 2016. Are We Losing Diversity? Navigating Ecological, Political, and Epistemic Dimensions of Agrobiodiversity Conservation. Agriculture and Human Values 33(3): 625-640. (View PDF) 7. Iles, A. and M. Montenegro de Wit. 2014. Sovereignty at What Scale? An Inquiry into Multiple Dimensions of Food Sovereignty. Globalizations 12(4): 481-497. (View PDF) 8. Montenegro de Wit, M. 2014. A Lighthouse for Urban Agriculture: University, Community, and Redefining Expertise in the Food System. Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture 14(1): 9-22. (View PDF) 9. Bacon, C., C. Getz, S. Kraus, M. Montenegro de Wit, and K. Holland. 2012. The Social Dimensions of Sustainability and Change in Diversified Farming Systems. Ecology and Society 17(4): art.41. (View PDF) Reference Volumes, Book Reviews, and Book Chapters 1. Montenegro de Wit, M. 2017. Review of Fertile Ground: Scaling Agroecology From the Ground Up, Steve Brescia, ed. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems. (Peer-reviewed; view online) 2. Iles, A. and M. Montenegro de Wit. 2017. Sovereignty at What Scale? An Inquiry into Multiple Dimensions of Food Sovereignty. In The Politics of Food Sovereignty: Concept, Practice and Social Movements, eds. A. Shattuck, C. Schiavoni, and Z. VanGelder, Chapter 5. New York, NY: Routledge. (Peer-reviewed) 3. Iles, A., G. Graddy-Lovelace, M. Montenegro de Wit, and R. Galt. 2016. Agricultural Systems: CoProducing Knowledge and Food. In the Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, 4th edition, eds. U. Felt, R. Fouché, C. Miller, and L. Smith-Doerr, Chapter 33, 943-972. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Peerreviewed; view PDF) 4. Garbach, K, J.C. Milder, M. Montenegro de Wit, D.S. Karp, F.A.J. DeClerck, 2014. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Agroecosystems. In Encyclopedia of Agriculture Systems. Elsevier Science. (Peerreviewed; view PDF) 5. Argumedo, A. with M. Montenegro de Wit and R. Patel. 2012. Defending Seed and Food Sovereignty in the Andes. In Seed Freedom: A Global Citizens’ Report. Navdanya. (View PDF) 6. Banta, L.M. and M. Montenegro de Wit. 2008. Agrobacterium and Plant Biotechnology. In 2

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Agrobacterium: from Biology to Biotechnology, edited by T. Tzfira and V. Citovsky, 73-147. New York: Springer. (Peer-reviewed) Selected Popular Articles (from ~60) • •

Montenegro, Maywa and Alastair Iles. 2016. What Would It Take to Mainstream Alternative Agriculture? Ensia Magazine, July 25. Montenegro, Maywa. 2016. CRISPR is Coming to Agriculture. Ensia Magazine, January 28.

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Montenegro, Maywa. 2016. How CRISPR Works. Ensia Magazine, January 28. Montenegro, Maywa. 2015. The Complex Nature of GMOs Calls for a New Conversation. Ensia Magazine, October 7. (Republished by PRI, Quartz, Business Insider)



Montenegro, Maywa. 2015. Agroecology Can Help Fix Our Broken Food System: Here’s How. Ensia Magazine, June 17. Thrupp, Ann, Maywa Montenegro, and Alastair Iles. 2015. Agroecology & Justice in Food Systems Are Critical to Empower People to Feed Themselves. Huffington Post Blog, May 29. Montenegro, Maywa. 2015. Reimagining the Seed: From Private Property to Shared Heritage. Food First Blog, May 6. Montenegro, Maywa and Alastair Iles. 2015. Getting Past Scientized Scrutiny: Too Often, Reporting on Food and Agriculture Treats Science as a Singular Source of Truth. The Earth Island Journal, April 29. Montenegro, Maywa. 2013. Urban Agroecology: A Lighthouse of Sustainability. The Earth Island Journal, August 1. Montenegro, Maywa. 2010. Urban Resilience: Merging complex systems science and ecology to understand the city. Seed Magazine, February 16.

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Montenegro, Maywa and Veronique Greenwood. 2009. In Seeds We Trust: Because crop technology won’t save us if biodiversity fails. Seed Magazine, June 9. Montenegro, Maywa. 2009. Hungry for Land: Growing food in foreign lands has a long history. But the 21st century version of outsourced agriculture presages something fundamentally new. Seed Magazine, April 27. Montenegro, Maywa. 2009. Rethinking Growth: An interview with ecological economist Herman Daly. Seed Magazine, January. Online April 6, 2011. Montenegro, Maywa and Terry Glavin. 2008. In Defense of Difference: Scientists offer new insight into what to protect of the world’s rapidly vanishing languages, cultures, and species. Seed Magazine, October 7. Montenegro, Maywa. 2008. Black and Green: Profile of environmental justice pioneer Van Jones. GOOD Magazine, March. Montenegro, Maywa. 2003. A Doctor Cries Out for the Neglected Millions, Book Review of Pathologies of Power: Health Human Rights and the New War on the Poor by Paul Farmer. The Boston Globe, August 12. Montenegro, Maywa. 2003. A Fresh Look at Genetically Modified Foods, Book Review of Food Inc.: Mendel to Monsanto—The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest by Peter Pringle. The Boston Globe, July 15.

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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS “Creating the Agroecology Research-Action Collective.” In Making Agrarian Justice Happen: Strategy, Activism and Lessons from Grassroots Leaders at the Federation of Southern Cooperatives. American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA, April 13, 2018. “The Agrarian Origins of Authoritarian Rural Populism in the United States: What can we learn from 20th century struggles in California and the Midwest?” Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative Conference. The Hague, Netherlands, March 17-18, 2018. (presented by co-author Antonio Roman-Alcalá). “Beating the Bounds: How Does Open Source Become a Seed Commons?” In Critical Geographies of Agri-food Policy: Igniting Political Potential. American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting. Boston, MA, April 5, 2017. “All the News That’s Fit to Teach,” In Skills for Social Change: Organizing and Storytelling in Teaching and Research. Sustainable Agriculture Education Association, UC Santa Cruz, CA, July 30, 2016. “Crop Wild Relatives in the Global Geography of Knowledge-Making and Use.” Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, March 31, 2016. “Building Relational Food Sovereignty Across Scales: An Example from the Peruvian Andes.” Food Sovereignty: A Critical Dialogue, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 14 September, 2013 (with Alastair Iles). “Creating the ‘Landscape Approach’: Knowledge Sovereignty or Enclosure?” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, California, April 9, 2013.

INVITED TALKS 2018 2018 2017 2017 2017 2016 2016 2016

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Panelist, “Agroecology: On a Local and Global Scale.” Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS), Santa Cruz, CA, June 25. Speaker, “Beating the Bounds: How Does ‘Open Source’ Become a Seed Commons?”, Seed Sovereignty Workshop, The Graduate Institute Geneva, Switzerland, May 27-29. Speaker, “Rethinking the GMO Debate: Toward Better Evaluation Criteria?” UC ANR Nutrition Policy Institute, Berkeley, CA, November 16. Speaker, “Open Source for Seeds and Digital Sequence Information: Workshop on Practical Experiences with OSS Implementation.” CIRAD, Montpellier, France, October 16-17. Panelist, “Fertile Ground: Scaling Agroecology from the Ground Up.” Food First book launch, Berkeley, CA, April 19. Panelist, “GMOs 2.0 Synthetic Biology, Agroecology & The Future of Food.” Soil Not Oil Conference. Richmond, CA, August 5. Keynote Speaker, Ensia Magazine “Spark” Gala. Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, May 18. Panelist, “Will Genetically Modified Foods be Featured in our Menus and Meals in 2050?” Oppenheim Panel. Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, April 19. Speaker, “Food and Agriculture at the Rio+20 Summit on Sustainable Development.” Center for Diversified Farming Systems, Roundtable Events. University of California, Berkeley, CA, September 14. Panelist, “Science Writing: Multiple Career Trajectories.” Participated alongside Science journal editor, and Harvard science illustrator in a dialogue on public science. Williams College, Williamstown, MA, January 9. 4

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2010

Panelist, “How Ecologists Can Improve Communications with the Media.” Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Pittsburgh, PA, August 7.

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2018 – 2017 – 2018 2016 – 2017 2011 – 2016 2011 – 2014

University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship. University of California, Davis, CA Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative (ERPI) Small Grant, Transnational Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands ($2,000) University of California Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management Block Grant, CA National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. University of California, Berkeley, CA ($90,000) Chancellor’s Graduate Student Diversity Fellowship. University of California, Berkeley, CA ($60,000)

TEACHING AND MENTORING EXPERIENCE Graduate Student Instructor University of California, Berkeley • ESPM 155: The Sociology and Political Ecology of Agro-Food Systems (2018) Guest Lecturer University of California, Berkeley • GEOG 130: Food and the Environment (2018); on open source seeds and seed sovereignty • ESPM 155: The Sociology and Political Ecology of Agro-Food Systems (2018); on rethinking the GMO debate • •

ESPM 161: Environmental Philosophy and Ethics (2017); on GMOs in science and society ESPM 155: (Panelist) The Sociology and Political Ecology of Agro-Food Systems (2016); on decolonizing food and seed systems • GEOG 130: Food & the Environment (2016); on food sovereignty and social movements • ESPM 290: Special Topics in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management: Biodiversity & Human Health (2015); on crop diversity, nutrition, and health Other Universities •

University of Massachusetts, Boston, Graduate Program in Science Journalism (2015); on GMOs and constructing consensus in the media

Mentoring & Student Support • Meet weekly with Latino/a students who are preparing for qualifying exams; offer support in social science theory, analysis, and writing for interdisciplinary scholars • Help connect prospective graduate students with faculty mentors, advise on food-related research, courses offering, and opportunities for community engagement in the Bay Area •

Completed professional development/Graduate Student Instructor course for teaching in higher education

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UNIVERSITY SERVICE 2017 – 2018 2016 – 2014 – 2013 – 2013 – 2015 – 2016 2012 – 2013

Admissions Committee for Society and Environment, ESPM, University of California, Berkeley Elected Student Representative on the Steering Committee for the Sustainable Agriculture Education Association (SAEA) Graduate Student Representative for the UC Berkeley committee of the UC Global Food Initiative (GFI) Student Fellow of the Berkeley Food Institute (BFI), University of California, Berkeley Communications Coordinator for the Center for Diversified Farming Systems (CDFS), University of California, Berkeley Conference Organizing Committee Member, Sustainable Agriculture Education Association (SAEA), held at the University of California, Santa Cruz, July 29-31, 2016 Launch Symposium Organizing Committee Member, Berkeley Food Institute (BFI), held at the University of California, Berkeley, May 6-7, 2013

COMMUNITY & SCHOLARLY ORGANIZING Agroecology Research-Action Collective. We are a group of North American scholars committed to active colearning and collaboration with social movements – ‘frontline’ groups of farmers, workers, organizers, and advocates who are transforming our food and political systems towards justice and ecological health. I am a founding member of ARC, which is now active in 8 states and 12 universities. Building on efforts since 2015, we have 3 working groups to nurture participatory and action-based science; to develop protocols for mutually beneficial work with social movements partners; and to write and speak about agroecology and food sovereignty for a wider public. Sustainable Agriculture Education Association: Founded in 2006 students, by faculty, and staff of land grant universities, SAEA is a nationwide network of educators who co-develop, share, and experiment with innovative methods in agricultural education. As a Steering Council member, I helped co-organize the 2016 SAEA conference at UC Santa Cruz, focused on the ‘ecology of food systems.’ In 2018, the national conference at the University of Hawai‘i, Oahu will center on indigenous knowledge, decolonization, and socio-ecological resiliency. I plan to continue advancing decolonizing and anti-oppressive pedagogical perspectives central to SAEA, and to build solidarity with educators who work in farmer-training, urban agriculture, school farms, and other applied fields.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Journal Referee • Agriculture and Human Values • Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems • Gastronomica: Journal of Critical Food Studies • Journal of Peasant Studies • World Development Conference Sessions Organized or Chaired

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Montenegro de Wit, M., G. Graddy-Lovelace, Annie Shattuck. 2018. “Making Agrarian Justice Happen: Strategy, Activism and Lessons from Grassroots Leaders at the Federation of Southern Cooperatives.” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA, April 13. Graddy-Lovelace, G., M. Montenegro de Wit, M.J. Chappell. 2017. “Critical Geographies of Agri-food Policy: Igniting Political Potential.” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. Boston, MA, April 5. Shattuck, A. M. Montenegro de Wit, and L. Carlisle. 2016. “Skills for Social Change: Organizing and Storytelling in Teaching and Research.” Sustainable Agriculture Education Association Conference, UC Santa Cruz, CA, July 30. Iles, A. M. Montenegro de Wit, and G. Graddy-Lovelace. 2016. “Conversations Between STS and Agri-Food: The Global Geography of Knowledge-Making and Use.” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA, March 31.

AWARDS AND OTHER HONORS 2016 2016 2016

Outstanding Conference Organizer, Sustainable Agriculture Education Association (awarded by peers and SAEA leaders) Nomination, National Association of Science Writers, Science in Society Award Nomination, Society of Environmental Journalists Award

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES • • • • • •

Association of American Geographers (AAG) Latin America Scientific Society of Agroecology - North America (SOCLA-NA) Sustainable Agriculture Education Association (SAEA) Agriculture, Food & Human Values Society (AFHVS) Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society

LANGUAGES • English: Native speaker •

Spanish: Intermediate proficiency (Read, Write, Converse)

MEDIA INTERVIEWS “How Seeds from War-Torn Syria Could Help Save American Wheat.” Yale E360, May 14, 2018. “Can ‘Vaccines’ for Crops Help Cut Pesticide Use and Boost Yields?” Yale E360, April 19, 2018. “Monsanto’s Driverless Car: Is CRISPR Gene Editing Driving Seed Consolidation?” Civil Eats, April 10, 2017. “New Technology Spurs Consolidation in the Seed Industry.” Epoch Times, September 27, 2016. “The Trans-Pacific Partnership Will Hurt Farmers and Make Seed Companies Richer.” The Nation, June 10, 2016. Breakthroughs Magazine, UC Berkeley College of Natural Resources. Interviews with women of the Berkeley Food Institute. Winter 2016. 7

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Delicious Revolution Podcast Guest: “Maywa Montenegro on GMOs, Agrobiodiversity, and the Politics of ‘Scientific Consensus.’” November 23, 2015.

OTHER RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Freelance Science Journalism Contributor to The Boston Globe, Grist, GOOD, The Earth Island Journal, Gastronomica, Ensia, Food First. January 2003 – present. Williams College, Williamstown, MA Science Writer, Biology Department. 2001-2002. Williams College, Williamstown, MA Merck Research Fellowship, Roseman Virology Lab. Biology Department. Winter 1999.

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