Julia Valliant

Julia Valliant directs the American Farmland Trust Farms for a New Generation division, which works coast to coast to open durable pathways to opportunity for America’s next farmers and ranchers. Farms for a New Generation builds the country’s infrastructure to address land succession, transfer, affordable access, and protection through policy and programmatic levers, storytelling, pass-through funding and financial assistance, and training, coaching, networking, and convening. Julia was previously a researcher with the Indiana University Food and Agrarian Systems Program and a radio documentarian. She holds a doctorate in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University and a bachelors in Environmental Sciences from the University of Virginia. She is an 8th generation Hoosier and a farm daughter who resides in her hometown with her family.