Sustainable Agriculture & Food Policy

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Amber Pairis

2001 Fellow
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...
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David Sonnenfeld

1995 Fellow
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...
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Matthew Davis

2008 Fellow
Matthew Hanscom Davis was previously a Congressional Liaison Specialist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (U.S. EPA's) Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations. There, he represents EPA to congressional offices...
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Susannah McCandless

2004 Fellow
Susannah McCandless received her doctorate in human-environment geography and political ecology at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts in 2010, and works with the non-profit Global Diversity Foundation (www.global-diversity.org)...
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Jim Downing

2003 Fellow
Jim was previously the Executive Editor of California Agriculture, the peer-reviewed journal of the University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources. He has worked in natural resource management for 20 years as a...
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Jen Sokolove

2000 Fellow
Jen Sokolove leads the Water Foundation’s programs team, which drives grantmaking strategy to secure safe water for people, restore and sustain freshwater ecosystems, and build climate resilience. As a member of the senior management team...