Samara has spent more than 20 years working to create sustainable food systems. She has worked on food and agriculture projects in Cuba and Argentina, as a food systems planner for the City of Vancouver, and as a Program Officer for the Tides Canada Foundation funding non-profits working on complex conservation, climate change, and food system initiatives. As part of a collaboration between Oxford University, Wageningen, and the Swedish University of Agricultural Science, she co-hosts the Feed podcast focused on critical food system debates. Her current PhD research at Yale’s School of the Environmental focuses on organizations that are trying to transform the future of the global food system.