Zoraida Lopez-Diago joined Glynwood Center for Regional Food & Farming as vice president of development, communication, and strategic partnerships in 2022. She is deeply committed to environmental justice and working at the intersection of land, food, and equity, and has nearly two decades of experience collaborating with community members, municipalities, philanthropic leaders, and regional nonprofits.

Most recently, Zoraida served as director of the River Cities Program at Scenic Hudson Inc. Prior to that, she managed communications and grants initiatives at Westchester Land Trust. During this time, she also co-founded Conservationists of Color, a national platform and affinity group for people of color working in the land conservation movement.

Zoraida is a photographer and curator. In 2023, she co-curated an exhibition, Picturing Black Girlhood: Black Utopia, an international and intergenerational exhibition that blurs the lines between​ what is exterior and interior to reclaim the Black outdoors and rethink history and the ways ​African-American girls and genderqueer youth have been denied freedom; most recently, she curated Home/Land, a photography exhibition that invites viewers to reflect on these narratives and the intricate relationships between nature, identity, and the histories.