Washington Food System Directory Editorial Team
Tim Crosby
Education
Tim is Farm to Cafeteria Director for 21 Acres, a new urban agricultural center in Woodinville. Tim serves on the steering committees for the Farm to School Connections Team and Sustainable Seattle's Local Food Economy Study. He is also Washington state's coordinator for the Western Region Farm to School Network project and a member of Seattle Public Schools' Nutrition Advisory Committee. Tim holds a BA in Anthropology from Kenyon College and an MBA in Sustainable Business from Bainbridge Graduate Institute.
Mary Embleton
Marketing
A native Seattleite, as a young girl Mary moved with her family to their Montana farm. She earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Economy of Natural Resources from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master’s Degree in Applied Economics from Montana State University, Bozeman. Mary taught economics and conducted research at Montana State University prior to moving back to Seattle in 1989, where she got involved in land use and environmental planning and community development. In 1997 she participated in meetings of local food system stakeholders to create a “unified voice” for local agriculture. The meetings led to formation of the Cascade Harvest Coalition incorporated, which was incorporated as a non-profit in 1999. As Director, Mary operates a number of programs in the areas of local product identification and consumer education, creating new markets, farm transition and farmer education, farmer-consumer linkages, farmer-policy maker connections, and community food access.
Kathryn Gardow
Land Preservation
Kathryn Gardow is the Executive Director of the PCC Farmland Trust. Kathryn practiced project management, land use planning, and civil engineering for 25 years prior to taking the position at the Trust. She was a PCC Natural Markets board member between 1995 and 1999. Kathryn has extensive experience in land use and regulatory issues and a passion for keeping land in food production.
Steven Garrett
Urban Agriculture
Steven Garrett is both a nutritionist (MS, RD: UW) and a geographer (PhC: UW), which provides him with a unique perspective on food systems practice and research. Before becoming an academic (his geography hat) he developed and/or managed community gardens, an urban CSA run by homeless farmers, farmland preservation programs, large federally-funded nutrition education programs, school gardens, a gleaning project, and other local food projects and coalitions.
Alicia Guy
Land Preservation
Alicia Guy jobshares the Executive Director position for the PCC Farmland Trust with Kathryn Gardow. A fourth generation Washingtonian, Alicia feels that a local food system oriented towards small family farms and producers is of vital importance to sustainable communties in the future. She has worked for PCC Natural Markets since 1997 and is also a writer and photographer with a focus on agriscapes and the people that work them.
Sylvia Kantor
Public Policy
Sylvia has a BA in Anthropology from UC Berkeley and Masters from the University of Washington in Natural Resource Policy and Planning. She joined Washington State University King County Extension in 1998. Her work there has ranged from providing marketing and technical information to farmers to managing the Extension Watershed Stewardship program. Sylvia is currently working on ways to improve community food systems, food access, farm viability, and community development by establishing a local food policy council, developing farm-to-school connections, and promoting and supporting local agriculture through pubic education. She is a member of the WSU Small Farms Team and currently serves on the Farm to School Connections Team Steering Committee as well as the Acting Food Policy Council for Seattle and King County.
Erin MacDougall, PhD
Children's Gardens; Nutrition
Erin is the manager for the Healthy Eating and Active Living Program at Public Health - Seattle and King County. She provides planning, coordination, policy development, coalition building, demonstration programs, research, and technical support to King County agencies, community-based organizations and individuals. She oversees the King County Overweight Prevention Initiative, working alongside dozens of organizations, public health colleagues, academic researchers, educators, and elected officials to influence programs and policies that create greater access to healthy food and physical activity for all residents. She holds a Doctorate in Nutrition from the University of California, Davis. Prior to her current work in public health, she did laboratory research on cardiovascular disease and worked in K-12 science education.
Eric Magnuson
Economic Development; Relocalization
Eric Magnuson is a founding member of Web Collective. Eric has over thirteen years of experience matching Internet technologies to the business needs of both companies and nonprofits. He has managed business development, led software teams, launched products, managed high-traffic websites and built the entire IT infrastructure for the Bainbridge Graduate Institute. Throughout his career he has sought to work with organizations with which he shares values and where the work is meaningful. Eric's philosophy is that life is short and there is no time for work that is not having a direct positive impact on people and the planet. He holds a MBA in Sustainable Business from Bainbridge Graduate Institute and a BS in Computer Science from Albright College.
Mark Musick
Culinary Community; Hunger; Sustainable Agriculture
Mark was one of the founders of the Tilth Association, which has grown into a regional network of organic farmers and gardeners in Oregon and Washington. Mark was a member of Pragtree Farm for ten years, and served as farmer liaison for the Pike Place Market from 1997 through 2001. He is currently working on contract with the City of Seattle to strengthen the emergency food system. He also serves as chair of the Tilth Foundation, which is sponsoring an oral history of the organic farming movement in the Pacific Northwest.
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