Sustainable Agriculture & Food Policy

Fellow

Heather Lahr

2010 Fellow
Heather is good at making connections, finding and building relationships between seemingly disparate groups in the community. In her current role, she is managing the Clean Seafood Project which links ocean conservation, economics, and the...
Fellow

Michelle Lewis

2010 Fellow
Michelle Estelle Lewis is founder and Executive Director of Peace Garden Project, a nonprofit focused on Environmental Justice, Food Justice and the intersectionality of the justice issues present in our society. She is also a former...
Fellow

Kyra Busch

2010 Fellow
Kyra has been a Program Officer at the Christensen Fund since 2012 supporting Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities around the world. She has managed programs in Agrobiodiversity and Food Sovereignty, Resilient Biocultural Landscapes...
Leadership Grant Grant

Campaigns Director at the Center for Food Safety, Year 1

The Center for Food Safety hired Lisa Bunin as the organization’s first Campaigns Director, working out of the organization’s San Francisco office. CFS has grown in recent years and while it has deep legal, outreach, research and advocacy...
March 29, 2010
Leadership Grant Grant

Campaigns Director at the Center for Food Safety, Year 2

To provide a second year of funding for Lisa Bunin’s role as Campaigns Director at the Center for Food Safety (CFS) where she develops, directs, implements and evaluates all CFS programs and campaigns to be sure they are appropriately...
March 29, 2010
Leadership Grant Grant

Fisheries Research in El Ocote National Forest, Mexico

To provide funds for Rebecca Quinones to allocate a portion of her time to work with the El Ocote National Forest in Mexico on fisheries research, and ultimately to provide leadership on preparing a restoration strategy for native fish...
March 29, 2010
Leadership Grant Grant

Participatory Action Research Director

To hire Chris Bacon as full-time Participatory Action Research Director, to continue his prior years of academic work on small-scale coffee farmer livelihood improvements and biodiversity conservation measures with shade coffee production...
March 29, 2010
Fellow

Jeff Dlott

1992 Fellow
Dr. Jeff Dlott is the COO at LandScan and Chair of the California Department of Food and Agriculture’s (CDFA) Environmental Farming Science Advisory Panel (SAP). The SAP advises the CDFA Secretary on the Healthy Soils Program, State Water Efficiency and Enhancement Program, and on scientific findings, program frameworks, grower incentives, and technical assistance. Dr. Dlott has served as an appointed member since 2011.
Fellow

Paul da Silva

1990 Fellow
Dr. Paul da Silva is an ecologist, entomologist and educator living and working in Marin County, California. At the time of becoming a Switzer fellow, he was researching integrated pest management (IPM) and biological control of insect...
Fellow

Don Weber

1990 Fellow
Don Weber grew up in northern Virginia with a knowledge of plants, insects and birds imparted by Burgundy Wildlife Camp and its staff. After obtaining his BA in Biology at Williams College, and an MS in Entomology at UC Berkeley with...