Meet the team

Engil Pereira| Project Director

Associate Professor of Soil Ecology at UTRGV

Alexuss Jauregui

Program Manager at UTRGV

Marcelo Gomes da Silva

Associate Research Scientist at UTRGV

John Rodriguez

Graduate Student Assistant at UTRGV

Valeria Vazquez

Graduate Student Assistant at UTRGV

Anna Erwin

Assistant Professor of Environmental Social Science at UTRGV

Colin Cain

Rural Business Development Director at UTRGV

Diego Cardoso

Assistant Professor of Agricultural Economics at Illinois University

Rafael Almeida

Assistant Professor of Sustainability at Indiana University

Horacio Vasquez

Professor of Mechanical Engineering at UTRGV

Alexis Racelis

Professor of Agroecology at UTRGV

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