ChristinaSchiavoni
(she/her)
Senior Communications Coordinator
“Not only are social movements leading the way in response and resistance to the greatest crises of our times. They are offering up brilliant and effective frameworks to transform the world – and tirelessly working to put them into practice in the here and now.”
Christina M. Schiavoni is Grassroots International’s Senior Communications Coordinator. With backgrounds in movement organizing and academic research, she is passionate about communications as a vehicle for justice and transformation.
A longtime food sovereignty activist, she was involved in founding the US Food Sovereignty Alliance and the Food Sovereignty Prize and in establishing the Civil Society and Indigenous People’s Mechanism of the United Nations Committee on World Food Security.
A visit to Venezuela for the 2006 World Social Forum inspired her to learn more about efforts to build food sovereignty there through progressive policy and grassroots organizing. From 2013-2018, she conducted research in Venezuela together with Venezuelan movements, forming the basis of her masters and doctoral degrees from the International Institute of Social Studies in the Netherlands.
From there, Christina engaged in a range of research and writing, increasingly focusing on the intersections of communications and movement-building.
Having long felt deep affinity and connection with Grassroots International from her early days of food sovereignty organizing, joining the team in 2020 felt like a homecoming of sorts. It was also a literal homecoming, bringing her back to Boston, where she is raising her child in the neighborhood where she grew up.