Abra Brynne is a sustainable food systems advocate and policy analyst. She has been deeply involved in farming and food systems her entire life, beginning with a childhood on a farm in BC’s Okanagan Valley, where her family belonged to a local tree fruit marketing cooperative. She has worked closely with farmers and on food systems for thirty years, with a focus on value chains and the regulatory regimes that impede or support them. She has served as a policy advisor in the fisheries, meat, cannabis, and organic sectors, working with civil society, industry organizations, local, and provincial governments, mostly located in British Columbia. Abra is an interdisciplinary PhD candidate at Dalhousie University, focusing on settler roles in advancing Indigenous food sovereignty in Canada. Her research seeks to illuminate avenues for agency on settler-owned private property for Indigenous Peoples, building on the emergent phenomenon of farmer–Indigenous land sharing arrangements.

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