Project Team
Columbia University
- Kubi Ackerman, Senior Research Coordinator
Urban Design Lab at the Earth Institute, Columbia University
Location affiliation: New York City - Michael Conard
- Richard Plunz
Cornell University
- Oliver Gao
- Miguel I. Gomez
- Susan Parker, Program Educator
Cooperative Extension/Onondaga County
Delaware State University
- Carol Giesecke
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Kate Clancy, Ph.D.
Food Systems Consultant
Visiting Scholar, Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future
Food Systems Consultant
- Anne Palmer, MAIA
Program Director, Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future
Location affiliation: Baltimore
The Pennsylvania State University
- Stephan J. Goetz, Project Director
The Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development - Alessandro Bonanno, Assistant Professor of Agricultural Economics
- Deno De Ciantis, Director
The Penn State Center - Engaging Pittsburgh - Sherri L. DeFauw, Ph.D.
Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology
The Pennsylvania State University
c/o USDA, ARS New England Plant, Soil and Water Laboratory, University of Maine - Clare Hinrichs, Associate Professor of Rural Sociology
Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group
- Kathryn Ruhf, M.Ed., M.S.
Coordinator, Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group
Tufts University
- Timothy Griffin
- Christian Peters
University of Vermont
- Linda Berlin
USDA Agricultural Research Service
- David Fleisher, Beltsville, MD
- Robert Larkin Research Plant Pathologist, New England Plant, Soil, and Water Laboratory, University of Maine, Orono, ME
USDA Economic Research Service
- Patrick Canning, Washington, D.C.
West Virginia State University
- Kate Alie, M.S., R.D., L.D., Extension Specialist, Nutrition and Health
West Virginia State University Extension Service - West Virginia State University Gus R. Douglass Institute

