Ana Felicien works at Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Research and is a founding member of the Semillas del Pueblo (People’s Seeds) movement. She researches in the areas of agroecology and food sovereignty. Ana Felicien is a Venezuelan agroecology researcher. She completed her undergraduate degree in Environmental Studies at the Yacambú University, followed by a master’s degree in Tropical Ecology at the University of the Andes focused on soil ecology and nutrient dynamics in agricultural soils. Later, she worked as a researcher with the Institute of Advanced Studies (IDEA) focused on agroecology and food sovereignty. She is currently working at the Ecosystems and Global Change Laboratory of the Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Research (IVIC) and is a professor at the National Indigenous Experimental University (UNEIT). She was part of the team which worked with the nationwide bottom-up process for the collective construction of a new national Seed Law approved in 2015. Currently she is working at national level, with small farmers’ experiences in participatory breeding of maize and potato, among other crops focusing on the seed law implementation process. At international level she is member of the working group of Political Agroecology of CLACSO (Latin-American Council of Social Sciences) and the working group of agricultural biodiversity of the Latin American section of International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty (IPC).