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External Advisory Board, 2009 Members

(in alphabetical order)

  • Marcus Benedetti, President, Clover Stornetta Farms, Petaluma, CA
  • Ashley Boren*, Executive Director, Sustainable Conservation, San Francisco, CA
  • John Diener, President, Red Rock Ranch, Five Points, CA
  • Greg Drescher, Senior Director for Strategic Initiatives, Culinary Institute of America, St Helena, CA
  • Mable Everette, CEO and Founder, Community Nutrition Education Services, and 2007 Roots of Change Leadership Fellow, Inglewood, CA
  • Cornelius Gallagher, Senior Vice President for Agribusiness, Bank of America, Roseville, CA
  • Martha Guzman Aceves, Legislative Advocate, California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation, Sacramento, CA
  • Carl Johnson, Senior Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer, Campbell's Soup Company, Camden, NJ
  • Jonathan Kaplan, Director, Sustainable Agriculture, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), San Francisco, CA
  • AG Kawamura, Secretary, California Department of Food and Agriculture, Sacramento, CA
  • Craig McNamara, President, Sierra Orchards, and Co-Founder, Center for Land Based Learning, Winters, CA
  • Amparo Perez-Cook, Vice President and General Manager, Bustos Media, LLC, Sacramento, California
  • Michael Pollan, Contributing writer to the New York Times, author, and Knight Professor of Science and Environmental Journalism, University of California, Berkeley, CA
  • Judith Redmond, Co-owner, Full Belly Farm, and President, Community Alliance with Family Farmers, Guinda, CA
  • Richard Rominger*, Rominger Farms, Winters, CA
  • Howard Shapiro*, Director, Plant Science & External Research, Mars Inc, and Co-founder, Seeds of Change, McLean, VA and Davis, CA
  • Rachel Suris, County Extension Director, UC Cooperative Extension, Los Angeles, CA
  • Tom Turini, Director, Vegetable Crops Farm Advisor, UC Cooperative Extension, Fresno, CA
  • Paul Wenger, 1st Vice President, California Farm Bureau Federation, and farmer, Modesto, CA
  • * indicates members of the Executive Committee

Ex officio members (in alphabetical order)

  • Daniel Dooley, Vice President, Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of California
  • Jennifer Ryder Fox, Dean, College of Agriculture, California State University, Chico
  • Maggie Lickter, Student representative, UC Davis Students for Sustainable Agriculture
  • Neal Van Alfen, Dean, College of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences, Univ. of California, Davis