Krizzia Belén-Trineo
FSRI PhD Fellow
PRONUNCIATION kree-see-uh
PRONOUNS she/her
- Universidad de Puerto Rico-Río Piedras, BA
Food Systems
BIO
Krizzia Belén-Trineo is a PhD candidate in Food Systems and a Fellow at the Gund Institute for Environment. She is also a Community Fellow at the Vermont Folklife Center. Her overarching interest lie in the ways rural and oppressed people create and exist within "alternative" food systems. Krizzia is passionate about planetary health, environmental justice, and systems approaches. Her dissertation research focuses on the roles of hunting and trapping in New England's food future under climate change. Before switching her career focus to food systems, Krizzia got a double B.A in Anthropology & Archaeology and Foreign Languages from the University of Puerto Rico. She calls both Puerto Rico and Vermont home. Outside of work, you can find Krizzia reading folklore and history at a local coffee shop or providing maternal-fetal care as a volunteer hospital doula.
Bio
Krizzia Belén-Trineo is a PhD candidate in Food Systems and a Fellow at the Gund Institute for Environment. She is also a Community Fellow at the Vermont Folklife Center. Her overarching interest lie in the ways rural and oppressed people create and exist within "alternative" food systems. Krizzia is passionate about planetary health, environmental justice, and systems approaches. Her dissertation research focuses on the roles of hunting and trapping in New England's food future under climate change. Before switching her career focus to food systems, Krizzia got a double B.A in Anthropology & Archaeology and Foreign Languages from the University of Puerto Rico. She calls both Puerto Rico and Vermont home. Outside of work, you can find Krizzia reading folklore and history at a local coffee shop or providing maternal-fetal care as a volunteer hospital doula.