On viernes, diciembre 17, 2021, Joan M. Pabón Maxán, defended her thesis titled We Plant Threefold: The Furrows of Agroecology and Food Sovereignty in Puerto Rico, a translation from Spanish into English of Sembramos a tres partes: los surcos de la agroecología y la soberanía alimentaria by Nelson Álvarez Febles.
The Thesis Committee, formed by David Auerbach, Ph. D., Maritza Stanchich, Ph. D., and thesis advisor Prof. H. Jane Barnes Slown, awarded her thesis the grade sobresaliente.