Mariela Cedeño

Mariela Cedeño is the product of her Venezuelan and El Salvadoran roots and Bay Area upbringing. She has spent her career cultivating local economies, resilient food systems, and new models of investment that center and uplift Black, Indigenous, and POC entrepreneurs, farmers, land stewards, and community-based organizations. She is a co-founder of Manzanita Capital Collective, a collective working to shift power and capital to BIPOC-led food, agriculture, and land stewardship to advance racial and economic justice. Prior to Manzanita, Mariela was the Interim Executive Director of Mandela Partners, an Oakland-based non-profit organization that works to increase access to healthy food, good jobs, and ownership opportunities. Mariela has a wide breadth of experience in community-rooted economic development, integrated capital, financial planning, collaborative stewardship, and more.