JuanReardon

Juan Reardon is the Solidarity Program Officer for Latin America at Grassroots International. He is firmly committed to cultivating the organization’s longstanding praxis of solidarity with movement partners across the Americas while contributing creatively to the internationalism of Grassroots International. 

Juan was born in Argentina and raised in Northern California. The child of exiles forced abroad by a US-backed military junta, he has accompanied Latin American social movements in frontline struggles for food sovereignty that include efforts aimed at consolidating popular integral agrarian reform, peasant-to-peasant learning processes and local to global efforts for climate and environmental justice. His support for these movements has included service as National Coordinator of the US-based Friends of Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement (FMST), participatory action research alongside Cuba’s National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP), the facilitation of formation processes for the Latin American Coordination of Rural Movements (CLOC) at its “Paulo Freire” Latin American Institute of Agroecology (IALA) and the development of popular education materials with and for La Via Campesina in Venezuela. 

Prior to joining Grassroots International, Juan served in La Via Campesina’s International Operative Secretariat (IOS) for nine profoundly formative years (2015-2023). During that time he provided direct support to LVC’s International Coordination Committee, its International Working Collective on Climate and Environmental Justice, its International Working Collective on Agroecology, Seeds and Biodiversity, and the Palestinian-led process to articulate LVC in the Arab Region and North Africa, among other efforts. Juan holds a MsC in Sustainable Agriculture from Cuba’s Universidad Central “Marta Abreu” de las Villas (UCLV) and a BA in Environmental Studies with a focus in Agroecology from the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC). 

He is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.