Sustainable Agriculture & Food Policy

As co-founder and director of the woman-owned consulting firm, Organic Advocacy, Lisa designs and directs projects aimed at moving organic food and agriculture from the margins to the mainstream. Partnering with innovative organic farmers...

James Liebman was a Biologist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency--Region 9 in San Francisco. He worked with the Agriculture Program on non-regulatory projects that promote and support broader implementation of sustainable...

Dr. Timothy Krupnik holds the position of Systems Agronomist with the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), based in Bangladesh but with regional duties. He leads a portfolio of applied research and development efforts...

Lauren is on the faculty at Oregon State University as the Extension Food Systems Specialist, Associate Director of the Center for Small Farms & Community Food Systems (http://centerforsmallfarms.oregonstate.edu), and an Assistant Professor...

Steve is director of external communications and government relations for the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Previous positions include government relations and...

Dr. Amber Pairis is the Founder and Lead Advisor of the Climate Science Alliance and Associate Research Faculty with the Western Regional Climate Center at the Desert Research Institute. The Climate Science Alliance was created in 2015 out...

David's research focuses on institutional environmental transformation and governance. While much of his work has focused on East Asia, he is interested in Europe, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East, as well. His Switzer-supported...

Nathan McClintock is a geographer and professor of urban studies at the Instut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. His research focuses on the intersection of formal and everyday environmental governance (notably of food and waste), political economy, and environmental justice in North American cities and the Canadian Arctic. He is co-director of the C3V, a space for collaborative research using audio, visual, and cartographic storytelling and is an an editor of the journal Urban Geography.

Daniel F. Morris has spent the past decade and a half working to build economic and policy solutions powerful enough to adequately address the climate crisis. He is currently a Senior Climate Change Specialist and Clean Energy Lead for the...