About

Jovanna Garcia Soto (she/ella) is the Senior Solidarity Program Officer for Latin America. She has deep, trusted long-term relationships with social movements led by Indigenous Peoples, Afrodecnedants, Peasants,  women, and youth in Latin America America. She has accompanied the struggles in defense of land and ancestral territories, and the long-term transformative vision of the Lenca and Garifuna People and Peasants in Honduras for the last eight years. Prior to joining Grassroots’ Program team, Jovanna was working to advance environmental justice in communities of color in the Greater Boston area. Jovanna is trilingual in Spanish (her mother tongue), Portuguese, and English. She is originally from the archipelago of Puerto Rico and was involved there with the student movement for ending the US military occupation of Vieques, and part of the environmental justice and decolonization movement in Puerto Rico. She has also spent some time working in Brazil with the riverine communities in the Amazonian region.