Lina Tami Barrera
Lina Tami Barrera is completing the MS program in Rural Sociology and International Agriculture and Development and transitioning to PhD at the same program in Penn State. She has an MBA from the EAE-Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (Spain) and a BA in Economics from the Universidad Externado de Colombia. She has extensive experience working on rural development and agriculture and food system issues, including technology transfer and innovation, climate change adaptation, and emergency relief and disaster recovery. Her research interests are related to Agricultural Innovation Systems (AIS), rural youth issues and sustainability from the public policy perspective. During her MS program, Lina was a Fulbright scholar from Colombia working with Penn State’s Cacao for Peace Project, her thesis examines “Socio-economic factors that influence technology innovation in cacao farms in post-conflict regions in Colombia”.