Our Team

Amal Bouhabib is a Senior Staff Attorney at FarmSTAND, after nearly a decade representing farmworkers throughout the Deep South as an attorney, and later director of, Southern Migrant Legal Services located in Nashville, Tenn. At FarmSTAND, Amal continues to pursue cases that highlight and seek justice for the frontline food workers that feed us, and exploring news ways to create a humane, fair, and accessible food system for all communities.

Prior to her farmworker career, Amal was a litigator at an international law firm in New York, where she was part of the trial team that won a $14 million verdict on behalf of workers from India against a Mississippi corporation, the largest-ever jury verdict in a labor trafficking case. Before going to law school, Amal worked as a journalist in Beirut, Lebanon and as a legal assistant for the Brennan Center for Justice in New York. Amal earned her J.D. from Fordham University School of Law and holds a Master’s Degree in Journalism and Middle East Studies from New York University, and a B.A. in Theology from Georgetown University.

In her (limited) spare time, Amal enjoys the wild nature of Nashville, singing with her musician husband, attending her son’s soccer games, and cuddling with their moody cat Bear.

As a staff attorney at FarmSTAND, Chelsea works on a variety of cases to help create a food system that is just, transparent, and sustainable. Prior to joining FarmSTAND, she worked at the Southern Environmental Law Center, with a focus on clean energy, clean water, and environmental justice. Chelsea graduated from Yale Law School and has a B.A. in International Studies from Kenyon College. She enjoys hiking, backpacking, and rock climbing.

As FarmSTAND’s Digital Communications Associate, Vix is responsible for day-to-day communications management and for using online channels to connect FarmSTAND with its supporters and partners. Their interest in digital advocacy began with extensive involvement in national and local branches of the Sunrise Movement, a youth led climate justice organization.

Before joining FarmSTAND, Vix worked at TuttleCo, a digital communications consulting firm for nonprofits, where they provided digital strategy and content services to a variety of organizations, including the Gender Liberation Movement, Lambda Legal, and Native Americans in Philanthropy. In their free time, Vix enjoys reading, baking, and playing with their cat, Alphy.

Brianna is the Food Systems and Rural Communities Organizer at FarmSTAND. She works to cultivate relationships, develop collaborations, and build collective power with organizations and organizers that represent communities directly impacted by industrial agriculture. 

She has been farming and working for food systems justice for over a decade, deeply involved in organizing efforts around industrial agriculture and the encroachment of extractive industries on rural communities. She is committed to building a food system that honors and protects the land, water, and diversity of life and culture on earth. She is a water lover and plant enthusiast who loves exploring and working with the earth.

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Jessica Culpepper is the Executive Director of FarmSTAND, leading the organization’s staff and board to fight for a fair food system in courtrooms and communities. Jessica’s 16 year career has been entirely focused on legal advocacy on behalf of farmed animals and communities harmed by industrial animal agribusiness. Her fight for a fair food system began at her alma mater, Warren Wilson College, a work college with a sustainable working farm and garden. Most recently, she was the Director of the Public Justice Food Project where she grew the program from a single staff attorney to a team of eleven organizers, lawyers, and paralegals.

As a lawyer, Jessica worked primarily on fighting pollution from factory farms with fenceline communities and advocating for federal and state policy reform to advance fair food systems. Jessica stays deeply tied to the fight for a fair food system in her personal life as well as chair of the board of Socially Responsible Agriculture Project and board member of Warren Wilson College. She loves cooking food from her garden and has a top secret recipe for the world’s best pumpkin pie.

As a Senior Staff Attorney at FarmSTAND, Kelsey engages in strategic litigation and movement-centered advocacy to fight corporate control and expose the abuses in the industrial animal agriculture system. Before joining FarmSTAND, Kelsey was a lecturer and litigator with the Media Freedom & Information Access Clinic at Yale Law School, a policy fellow at the Brooks McCormick, Jr. Animal Law & Policy Program at Harvard Law School, and an attorney with the Animal Legal Defense Fund.

Kelsey specializes in litigation to combat secrecy and increase transparency in the industrial food system—challenging efforts to silence investigations and whistleblowers and advocating for consumers misled by animal agribusinesses’ deceptive marketing. When not working to transform the food system, Kelsey can be found running over the hills and dales of Vermont, listening to investigative journalism podcasts. 

As a legal fellow at FarmSTAND, Samantha supports strategic litigation aimed at reshaping the food system by uplifting workers and small producers and challenging corporate exploitation. Her passion for this work stems from growing up on a small, regenerative farm in North Dakota, where she cared for her family’s livestock on the vast prairie. Before FarmSTAND, Samantha worked in legal and data centered capacities at a variety of nonprofits focused on creating a more sustainable food system.

Samantha graduated from Harvard Law School and earned a B.A. in Politics from Princeton University. In her free time, she enjoys embarking on long bike trips throughout the Mid-Atlantic, hosting friends, and teaching her dog new tricks.

Nathan is a staff attorney at FarmSTAND, working on a variety of cases. He previously clerked and served as a legal fellow in the housing unit of a legal aid organization. He enjoys cooking, trying new restaurants, and reading, and pretends to enjoy running.

David is the Managing Director for Litigation at FarmSTAND. He oversees our docket of consumer, worker, environmental, and constitutional claims taking on industrial animal agriculture’s abusive practices. He has been a leading advocate against “Ag-Gag” laws, increasing safety for meatpacking and agricultural workers, and taking on false advertisements that cover up the reality of BigAg.

He previously worked at Public Justice and Public Citizen and in private practice as a qui tam attorney. He currently teaches agriculture and environmental law at George Washington University Law School, and has previously taught at Georgetown and Vermont law schools. He is always behind in maintaining his dog’s Instagram account, @FranktheFoxhound.

Aidan (he/him) is the Communications Director at FarmSTAND, based in Washington, DC. He contributes to FarmSTAND’s communications and base building goals through content creation, management of day-to-day communications needs related to press as well as digital platforms, and collaboration with allies on joint communications projects. He was previously Communications Director at Public Justice, and Senior Digital Communications Strategist at the Alliance for Justice, with a special emphasis in those roles on developing the basis for common messaging across diverse coalitions. He enjoys collecting vinyl, choral singing, and his cat Biscuit.   

Sylvia provides paralegal and research support to the FarmSTAND legal team. She also collaborates with the outreach team to communicate and organize around FarmSTAND’s legal work. Before joining FarmSTAND, Sylvia worked at the Climate Law Institute at the Center for Biological Diversity to protect people, wildlife, and ecosystems from climate change. In her free time, Sylvia is an amateur potter who likes to create functional dishware for herself, her friends, and her cat.

Ameesha is the Managing Director for Outreach and Organizing at FarmSTAND. She oversees our communications and base building strategies, with a strong focus on growing FarmSTAND’s relationships with organizations representing communities directly impacted by industrial agriculture. She previously worked at Public Justice, Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC, and Immigration Equality working in diverse coalitions, digital organizing, and storytelling. Ameesha maintains a multispecies household boasting a cat and a crayfish, and block prints one-of-a-kind bandanas.

Lucy (they/she) is FarmSTAND’s Worker Justice Organizer, supporting worker communities and organizers in building capacity, connecting to legal advocacy, and telling their stories as we work towards a more just food system together. Lucy brings several years of experience in direct outreach and organizing alongside migrant and immigrant worker communities, especially farmworkers and meat processing workers. Before joining FarmSTAND, Lucy was the Outreach Project Manager at Centro de los Derechos del Migrante and the Coordinator of the North Carolina Farmworker Advocacy Network.

They hold a Bachelor of Science in Public Health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Master’s degree in International Migration Studies from El Colegio de la Frontera Norte. In her free time, Lucy enjoys biking around DC with their partner, taking silly photos of their 2 cats, and writing novels. 

Hannah Wolf is a Senior Staff Attorney at FarmSTAND, where she litigates a variety of cases that seek to create a just and sustainable food system. Prior to joining FarmSTAND, Hannah was an attorney with Texas RioGrande Legal Aid’s farmworker program, a litigator at a plaintiff-side firm where she represented workers in anti-discrimination and wage and hour cases, and a federal law clerk. Hannah graduated from NYU School of Law, where she was a Root-Tilden-Kern scholar, and has a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University. She is new(ish) to North Carolina and enjoys exploring the state with her family.