Eden Radfarr fills the role of Youth Allies Program Coordinator as an Americorps VISTA Cadre Member serving until August of 2011. She assists with program support and logistics, recruitment, trainings, and building the Youth Allies Network. Eden has worked with youth for years as a theater director, ESL teacher and camp counselor. She looks forward to applying her talents and skills toward supporting youth activism and social justice while learning about community organizing. Eden has three beautiful kids(already budding activists), and thanks to the support of her husband Tristan, is also a film student at SFCC.

Bianca Sopoci-Belknap, is the Associate Director of Earth Care and the Director of its Youth Allies and AmeriCorps Youth Food Cadre Programs. She is also a Mayor appointed Sustainability Commissioner for the City of Santa Fe and appointed member of the City/County Food Policy Council.

Hired by Earth Care to launch Youth Allies in 2006 when she was 24 years old, she has spent the last four years developing and leading the program with youth participants and community partners. Bianca is a global justice activist & educator who has been organizing around issues of sustainability and social justice in Santa Fe, her home town, for over a decade. Before joining Earth Care, she worked as an educator and community organizer for Local Energy in Santa Fe promoting locally produced energy as a means for strong local economic development and self-reliance. She also developed and ran an experiential education program for Antioch College that placed undergraduate students at local businesses and nonprofits throughout northern New Mexico and trained them in cultural competency and social activism. She has worked for nonprofits across the country including Global Exchange, Destiny Arts, the Border Network for Human Rights, Del Pueblo Inc., and OffCenter Community Arts. Some of the issues she is most passionate about are: immigrant rights, global justice & sustainable community development, animal rights, anti-oppression & racial justice, decolonization, ecological health, and, of course, youth empowerment. She loves her work and her youth partners in crime and can't think of anything she'd rather do than build community capacity and mentor young change-makers in her home town. She has received professional training in popular education, leadership, permaculture, and anti-oppression. She holds a B.A. from Antioch College in Social and Global Studies with a focus in Sustainable Economic Development.