Cathy has over fifteen years of experience working on issues across the food system, including food access, hunger and food security, and sustainable agriculture. She is passionate about building strong and equitable food systems for both producers and consumers. She currently serves as the Interim Executive Director of Just Roots, a food justice non-profit based in Western Massachusetts. Previously, she was the Agriculture Program Director at The Trustees, where she oversaw vegetable and livestock farming operations on the organization’s conservation land. She also ran an early childhood obesity prevention initiative out of Northeastern University and managed food access programming at Bowdoin Street Health Center in Dorchester. Cathy has lived in California, where she got her master’s degree in International Agricultural Development at UC Davis and researched food insecurity among farmworkers, as well as in Pennsylvania, where she taught gardening and nutrition education in Philadelphia schools with The Food Trust. She also served as a Fulbright fellow in Ecuador, studying the impact of urban agriculture in Quito. Cathy grew up in Western Massachusetts, and currently lives in Carrboro, NC with her husband and twin six-year-olds. She loves gardening, playing frisbee, hiking, and running around with her kids.