Sovereignty Speaks #35
Impact of Women in Agriculture and Tribal Economies
A-dae Romero-Briones
Director of Programs - Native Agriculture and Food Systems
A-dae Romero-Briones is Cochiti/Kiowa. She is Director of Programs for Native Agriculture and Food Systems at First Nations Development Corp., a role she has had since 2017. She first joined First Nations Development Corp. as Associate-Director of Research and Policy for Native Agriculture.
A-Dae formerly was the Director of Community Development for Pūlama Lānaʻi in Hawaii, and is also the co-founder and former Executive Director of a nonprofit organization in Cochiti Pueblo, New Mexico.
A-dae worked for the University of Arkansas School of Law Indigenous Food and Agricultural Initiative while earning her LL.M. degree in Food and Agricultural Law. Her thesis was on the Food Safety Modernization Act as it applied to the federal-tribal relationship. She wrote extensively about food safety, the Produce Safety rule and tribes, and the protection of tribal traditional foods.
A U.S. Fulbright Scholar, A-dae received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Public Policy from Princeton University, and received a Law Doctorate from Arizona State University’s College of Law, in addition to her LL.M. degree in Food and Agricultural Law from the University of Arkansas. (From First Nations Development Corp. website.)