Jessica Siegal, Director of Stewardship Index for Specialty Crops

Jessica Siegal is the program director for the Stewardship Index for Specialty Crops, a multi-stakeholder initiative to develop a system for measuring sustainable performance throughout the specialty crop supply chain. The project seeks to offer a suite of outcomes-based metrics to enable operators at any point along the supply chain to benchmark, compare, and communicate their own performance.

Jessica’s background includes six years with Rainforest Alliance in New York City, where she served as the major gifts and board-relations manager. In this role, she worked with many of the business and thought leaders on the cutting edge of sustainable agriculture. She relished her first taste of farming and raising livestock as an apprentice with Glynwood Farm, a nonprofit farm in the Hudson River Valley of New York. Other meaningful experience includes farm-based education with the Yale Sustainable Food Project and a number of farmland preservation and agricultural business development projects throughout the New England farming community. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Sociology from Boston University, and a master’s degree in Environmental Management from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies with a focus on food systems. A native of New Haven, Connecticut, she recently fulfilled an 8-year-long dream by relocating to Sonoma County.

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