Virginia D. Nazarea is a professor of anthropology and director of the Ethnoecology/Biodiversity Laboratory at the University of Georgia. Prior to moving to Georgia, she taught at the College of Human Ecology at the University of the Philippines and at the Board of Environmental Studies at the University of California. She is author or editor of Local Knowledge and Agricultural Decision Making in the Philippines, Cultural Memory and Biodiversity, Ethnoecology, Heirloom Seeds and Their Keepers, and Seeds of Resistance, Seeds of Hope.