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Spotlight: He has worked in local foods in Colorado for the past 30 years as a vegetable farmer in Larimer County and as a student, instructor, and researcher at CSU. He continues that work in his current position directly with farmers, NGOs, ag value chain businesses, researchers, and public sector agencies. His Extension work focuses on produce farm labor, production and market development, public ag education, beginning farmer development, ag community development, and organizational support for the Colorado Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association. He builds bridges to facilitate the health of farms, businesses, people, and the planet. Adrian Card served as the CSU Extension Agent for Agriculture in Boulder County 2004 - 2022. View Spotlight View CSU Profile
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- Research Scientist / Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics, Colorado State University
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- Student in Food Science and Human Nutrition and Part of the InterFEWs Training Program
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- Student in Sociology at Colorado State University
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- Assistant Professor
- Co - Director of the Food Systems Institute at Colorado State University
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- County Extension Director
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- Fellow at Colorado State University
Francesco is a postdoctoral fellow at Colorado State University. He has his PhD in Environmental Engineering from University of Trento. His work is focused on extending cloud computing platforms with surrogate modeling capabilities, and complex networks for hydrological modeling. He is currently carrying on this research at OMSLab. During his free time he enjoys all that the Colorado outdoors have to offer and spending time catching up with his friends.
Spotlight: Harper is the County Extension Director and Family and Consumer Science Specialist for Lake County.
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- Postdoctoral Researcher / Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability / Department of Soil and Crop Sciences
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- Family & Consumer Sciences Extension Specialist
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- Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
Following his Master's in Development Economics and work experience in rural agricultural development in India, Pratyoosh is motivated to work towards small-farm and rural agricultural development, supporting policies and programs, and in understanding the regional economics of the same. His Ph.D. work will focus on the impact of Farm to School legislation on farmers, supply chain businesses, rural communities, and the economics of the policy changes. Prior to starting his Ph.D. at CSU, Pratyoosh focused on the development of community-based livestock farming and marketing with small, marginal, and landless women farmers in India, agricultural extension, and value chain development. He is looking to substantiate his learning from a developing country context with a developed country context in rural development. In Pratyoosh's free time he is also a photographer and he feels that visuals can strongly complement research findings. View Spotlight View CSU Profile
Rebecca Wasserman-Olin is a first year PhD student in the Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics. She received her B.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and completed her M.S. at Cornell University where she investigated consumer purchasing habits of local produce. In between her studies, she worked as a community organizer and economic researcher in Minnesota helping farmers assess the economic impact of incorporating conservation practices into their crop rotations. She also worked as a researcher at Cornell University supporting regional food systems in New York State. Throughout her career she has worked on vegetable farms ranging from 1 to 25 acres and she finds herself happiest in a pack shed. She looks forward to learning about agricultural systems in Colorado and supporting the great work of the Food Systems Institute. View Spotlight View CSU Profile
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- Student, Graduate Research Assistant
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- Regional Specialist for the CSU Extension Rural Initiative