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Initiative. Previously, she was Ecotrust's vice president of Food & Farms. She was also a member of the 2007-2008 class of Food and Society Policy Fellows.

community as well as in the agricultural sector. She is currently a USDA Advisor serving in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. Previously, she co-founded the Women Food and Agriculture Network and served as its director for more than 11 years. Her past experiences include also include running for Iowa Secretary of Agriculture, organizing the Women's Task Force of the Iowa Farm Unity Coalition, directing the Rural Women's Leadership Development Project of PrairieFire Rural Action Inc. and serving as president of the National Family Farm Coalition. She was a member of the 2001-2003 class of Food and Society Policy Fellows.

operates a certified organic vegan family farm in Espanola, NM. Bustos was honored by NMSU as the Leyendecker Agriculturist of Distinction in 2005, was named the New Mexico Farmer of the Year in 2006, and was named organic farmer for 2011 by the NMOCC. Bustos is the Program Director for the American Friends Service Committee-New Mexico, providing farmer to farmer training and working on issues of land and water rights.

He oversees all of NSAC’s federal policy work and has been involved in nearly every federal agricultural budget and appropriations bills as well as each of the omnibus farm bills since 1977.

organic dairy near Fairfield, Iowa. Francis and Susan’s farming operation is considered innovative in many respects, including how they integrate livestock onto the landscape in an ecologically sound way, their value-added dairy processing, the design and management of their grazing system, and their use of alternative energy systems.At the appointment of Iowa governors, Francis has served on the Iowa Environmental Protection Commission, the Iowa Food Policy Council, and the Iowa Organic Standards Boards. He was also a member of the 2002-2004 class of Food and Society Policy Fellows.

program implementation consultation for philanthropy. Previously, she was the program director of Food Systems and Rural Development at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, where she developed and reviewed programming priorities, evaluated and recommended funding proposals, and administered projects. Prior to joining the Foundation, Dr. Imig served as associate vice provost of Michigan State University and as director of the Michigan State University Extension. In these roles, she chaired the National Extension Committee on Organization and Policy, and served on the National Association of State Universities and the Land-Grant College Commission on Outreach and Technology Transfer. Dr. Imig earned a doctoral degree in family ecology and administration from Michigan State University.

Rodale Inc. and former executive director of Seed Savers Exchange. He has served on the Lehigh County Agricultural Land Preservation Board, the board of the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture and the North American Farmer Direct Marketing Association. An organic farmer since 1984, George and his wife, Melanie, own and operate a diversified vegetable, blueberry, flower and livestock farm near Emmaus, Pennsylvania. He was also a member of the 2002-2004 class of Food and Society Policy Fellows.

Clemson University, located at Coastal Research and Education Center. Her research focuses on crop production using environmentally sound practices that are potentially profitable. She has made significant contributions to the scientific literature in the area of integrated pest management and biological control of insect pests in soybean, cotton, vegetables and medicinal plants. She was a member of the 2001-2003 class of Food and Society Policy Fellows.

to mainstream sustainability in the global food supply.Hal’s career began as a commercial dairy farmer in Kentucky, and one of his proudest awards was being named Master Conservationist. While in Kentucky he led the development of the first formal alliance among tobacco farmer and public health organizations, an alliance that paved the way for hundreds of millions of dollars of tobacco settlement funds to be invested in rural communities in the upper south. He has founded and directed rural development and leadership organizations, and was the Executive Director of the Sustainability Institute founded by Donella Meadows. Hal is a frequent guest faculty or lecturer at the MIT Sloane School of Management, the Harvard Business School, the Kennedy School, the Society for Organizational Learning, and the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Hal has been an advisor to the Clinton Global Initiative for two years and recently moderated a panel that included US Agriculture Secretary Vilsack. At the invitation of the U.S. State Department in 2006 he gave the annual George McGovern address to the FAO at World Food Day. He has been a German Marshall Fellow and was a member of the 2001-2003 Food and Society Fellows. Hal’s education was at Stanford University and the State University of New York, Buffalo. He has written numerous columns and journal articles and three chapters in books on agricultural policy and change. Hal lives in a community in Vermont located on a farm that produces many products including an award winning cheese and maple syrup. His grandchildren are his three greatest delights.