Yvonne studies how drivers like climate crises and favorable markets promote agroecological transitions on California farms, and how these transitions can in turn make farms more ecologically and economically resilient. She is currently working with the CA Farm to School Evaluation Team to explore the environmental impacts of California’s Farm to School Incubator Grant, and with the California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance to better understand dry farm use and adoption in California vineyards. 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, and now has the good fortune of working with farm to school producers and dry farmers across the state. Yvonne holds a PhD in Agroecology from UC Berkeley and an MS in Agriculture, Food and Environment from Tufts University.