Jules Salinas

For over 35 years, Jules (Juliann) Salinas has been committed to social and environmental justice, particularly focused on the empowerment and leadership of women. She brings a deep understanding of the connection of agriculture to the intersections of climate change, public health, and women's equity. Excited to apply decades of nonprofit leadership and fund development experience to the important work of WFAN (Women's Food and Agriculture Network), Jules became WFAN's executive director in 2021.

She had previously served as the Associate Director and Interim Executive Director for Enlace Communitario, an Albuquerque organization with a mission to reduce domestic violence in the Latinx immigrant community. Earlier, Jules served as Assistant Director of GWTP (Greater West Town Community Development Project) in Chicago, Illinois, where she led the successful development of an onsite community garden providing service learning to local high school students. She also organized GWTP's first urban agriculture conference.

Jules holds a BA in political science and an MBA with specialization in environmental management. She is bilingual in English and Spanish and strongly believes we're at a critical tipping point, globally and locally—and that a collective, feminist approach to rebuilding society, predicated on an inclusive, re-imagined economy, is the only sustainable way forward.

On a personal note, Jules is working to expand her women's beekeeping education and hive-wellness group, which maintains over 15 hives in and around her home on unceded Pueblo Tewa and Keres land, known today as Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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