Yvonne is a postdoc in ESPM and is currently working with the CA Farm to School Evaluation Team to explore the environmental impacts of California’s Farm to School Incubator Grant. Her research interests lie at the nexus of agroecology and climate resilience, and her doctoral work explored how diversified management practices influence plant-soil-microbe interactions to promote farms’ ecological and economic well-being, particularly in the face of water limitations. She has worked extensively with farmers on California’s Central Coast, doing interviews and developing participatory research projects to better understand dry farming as an agroecological transition, and is thrilled to get to center her postdoc on conversations with farmers. Yvonne holds a PhD in Agroecology from UC Berkeley and an MS in Agriculture, Food and Environment from Tufts University.