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Junta Directiva<\/h1><\/div>

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Meet FarmSTAND’s Board<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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FarmSTAND is guided by board members with a wide range of experience in the movement for a fair food system. Learn more about each of them below. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Robin Greenwald<\/p>\r\n

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Robin Greenwald<\/h3>\r\n

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Robin Greenwald is a FarmSTAND board member and partner at Weitz & Luxenberg, managing the firm’s Environmental Torts and Consumer Class Action Unit. She has litigated environmental cases for the entirety of her 40-year law practice. She has served in lead counsel capacities as a federal environmental civil enforcement attorney and criminal prosecutor, and since entering private practice she has held many lead and plaintiffs\u2019 steering committee positions.     <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robin started her career with the Department of Justice for 16 years, first as Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York and then as Assistant Chief of the Environmental Crimes Section, followed by appointment as General Counsel for the Inspector General, U.S. Department of the Interior.    After 18 years in public service, Robin became the Executive Director of Waterkeeper Alliance, a not-for-profit water protection organization with hundreds of member programs around the world. Subsequently, she was a Clinical Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robin joined Weitz & Luxenberg in 2005. She has been co-lead counsel in the Roundup MDL in San Francisco for 6 years and has also litigated many of her Roundup cases in Missouri state courts. She is also co-lead counsel in the Camp Lejeune water litigation in the Eastern District of North Carolina, on behalf of Marines, their families, and civilian workers seeking compensation for injuries from the water at Camp Lejeune. She also was on the Executive Committee of the recently settled JCCP in Los Angeles concerning the methane gas well blow in Porter Ranch, a community in Los Angeles County. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, she has served leadership roles in several other environmental and non-environmental consolidated cases, including the BP Oil Spill Plaintiffs\u2019 Steering Committee in New Orleans, the Volkswagen Defeat Device Plaintiffs\u2019 Steering Committee in San Francisco, and co-lead of the MDL against the oil industry for contaminating the nation\u2019s groundwater with a gasoline additive MTBE. <\/p>\n\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/dialog>\r\n <\/div>\n\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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Frank James<\/p>\r\n

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Frank James<\/h3>\r\n

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Frank James recently retired after more than 30 years with Dakota Rural Action (DRA), where he served as staff director. Under his leadership, DRA grew into a leading grassroots  organization protecting environmental resources, advancing resilient agricultural systems, and empowering communities across South Dakota to shape policy and build local leadership. Raised on his family\u2019s cattle and crop farm in northeastern South Dakota, Frank brought firsthand knowledge of the challenges facing rural communities to his lifelong advocacy. He is recognized for his deep commitment to grassroots organizing and sustainable agriculture.

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Navina Khanna<\/p>\r\n

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Navina Khanna (she\/they) is a FarmSTAND board member and co-founder and the Executive Director of the HEAL (Health, Environment, Agriculture, Labor) Food Alliance<\/a>, a national coalition whose members represent over 2 million farmers, fishers, food workers, and advocates. For over 20 years, she has organized for social and ecological justice through food and farming systems, and her leadership is widely respected for uniting changemakers across sectors and communities. In their hometown of Oakland, Navina\u2019s worked with local farms, food pantries, corner stores, startups, and schools to increase access to affordable and healthful foods, and brought lessons from that work to her service on Oakland\u2019s Food Policy Council and the Mayor\u2019s Equitable Climate Action Plan committee. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Navina holds an MS in International Agricultural Development and has served on the leadership teams of Urban Tilth, the US Food Sovereignty Alliance, and Friends of the Earth-Action. They are a current Castanea Fellow and a past fellow with the Young Climate Leaders Network. A first-generation South Asian American, Navina\u2019s worldview is shaped by migration and grounded in movement. She most easily finds joy immersed in soil, music, and community. <\/p>\n\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/dialog>\r\n <\/div>\n\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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Robert P. Martin<\/p>\r\n

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While FarmSTAND Board Member Bob Martin will tell you modestly that he’s not an academic or a scientist, his extensive expertise in public policy and knowledge of agriculture, environmental and health issues ultimately brought him to the Center for a Livable Future<\/a> in 2011, where he was the director of the Food System Policy Program until his retirement in March of 2023.  He now is a senior advisor to the Center. During his years working for members of Congress from the Midwest, Bob gained a knack for strategizing and “bringing the right people together,” he says.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Previously, Bob worked on Capitol Hill and in a state legislature, as well as for a family farm advocacy group. He also worked for the Pew Charitable Trusts, where he served as a senior officer at the Pew Environment Group following the dissemination of his work as Executive Director of the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production.    Bob worked closely with staff at the Center and other experts from JHSPH on the Commission, which was a joint venture of Pew and JHSPH.  Ultimately, the Commission published eight technical reports and one seminal report entitled “Putting Meat on the Table: Industrial Farm Animal Production in America.”   “Food has become the social issue of our time,” he says. “I was lucky enough to participate in an effort to shine a bright spotlight on one aspect of the food system that is in crisis.”   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the Center, Bob’s role enhanced policy efforts based on research conducted by the Center and other organizations. As the Center has grown substantially in recent years, one of Bob’s responsibilities was to ensure that it takes a coordinated approach to research and policy while optimizing partnerships with colleagues at other organizations. <\/p>\n\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/dialog>\r\n <\/div>\n\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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