Katelyn Mann (she/they) was born in San Francisco but moved 18 times over 9 states across the country before finishing high school. Prior to university, Katelyn spent half a year living in Marachanca, Peru, and interning for a dairy cooperative, and half a year in Washington, D.C. working for an educational farm. 

Katelyn attended Green Mountain College in Poultney, Vermont where she majored in Agroecology and Sustainable Community Development. During the last semester of college, Katelyn returned to Peru to work with the Andean Alliance of Sustainable Development (AASD) in Calca, leading an undergraduate student group in the creation of a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) plan for the organization’s greenhouse construction program and helping to facilitate the first farmer-to-farmer knowledge sharing session. Following graduation, Katelyn joined the AASD as a Development Practicum Instructor, co-leading the implementation of the M&E plan. 

During the pandemic, Katelyn served as a project manager for the Food Systems Solutions Accelerators, an initiative supported by Food at Google, and as a fellow for the Artisan Grain Collaborative. For the past two years, Katelyn has managed rooftop farms and developed tenant garden programming at affordable housing apartment complexes in the Tenderloin and Mission neighborhoods of San Francisco.

Katelyn is excited to gain more understanding of and practice in the biophysical aspects of agroecology at UC Davis, to pair with their extensive hands-on agricultural production experience and social science background.