Sustainable Agriculture & Food Policy

Fellow

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...
Fellow, Fellows Advisory Committee

Nathan McClintock

2008 Fellow
Nathan McClintock is a geographer and associate professor of urban studies at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is also co-director of the Villes Voix Visions Collaboratory and editor of the journal Urban Geography. His work focuses on the formal and everyday governance of food and waste, urban agriculture and green gentrification, and the intersections of policy and practice with racial capitalism and settler colonialism.
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Daniel Morris

2007 Fellow
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...
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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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Susan Ornelas

1997 Fellow
Susan holds a B.S. in Environmental Engineering, MS in Environmental Science and has twenty years experience as an organic farmer. Currently, she teaches at Humboldt State University and is the executive director of the Jacoby Creek Land...
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Frances Moore

2009 Fellow
Frances C. Moore is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at UC Davis, working at the intersection of environmental economics and climate science. Her research seeks to improve our understanding of the...
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Randy Turner

2009 Fellow
With degrees in Biology (marine) and Zoology from Humboldt State University, Randy went on to serve in the AmeriCorps Watershed Stewards Program, assisting fishery and watershed restoration non-profits in rural northern California...
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Lily Verdone

2005 Fellow
Lily Verdone is an environmental leader with two decades of experience in partnership building, fostering diverse teams, and strategic development in organizations with a focus on natural resource conservation, water, and climate. Since...
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Ariane de Bremond

2000 Fellow
Ariane de Bremond is Executive Director of the Global Land Programme (www.glp.earth), and Research Associate Professor in Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park. Motivated by her time as a development practitioner...