About our twelfth speaker, Cynthia Rosenzweig
Cynthia is a senior research scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and the co-located Columbia University Climate School’s Center for Climate Systems Research. At NASA GISS, she heads the Climate Impacts Group whose mission is to investigate the interactions of climate (both variability and change) on systems and sectors important to human well-being, including agriculture, cities, and conservation.
Cynthia is the co-founder and member of the Executive Committee of the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP). In 2022, she received the World Food Prize, considered as the “Nobel Prize for Food and Agriculture.”
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About our thirteenth speaker, Saharah Moon Chapotin
Saharah Moon Chapotin leads the foundation in support of its vision – a world in which pioneering, collaborative science provides every person access to affordable, nutritious food grown on thriving farms. Chapotin is a plant scientist passionate about the role of agriculture and research in solving today’s challenges. She is committed to building partnerships in support of this vital science. Chapotin offers decades of experience bringing the best of global science on issues ranging from climate change to food security, nutrition and agricultural productivity to her leadership at FFAR.
Prior to joining FFAR in August 2022, Chapotin held roles across the U.S. government, including at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Smithsonian Institution, the U.S. Botanic Garden–where she served as executive director – and the U.S. Agency for International Development–where she served as a deputy assistant administrator and worked to advance the U.S. government’s global hunger and food security initiative, Feed the Future.
Earlier in her career, Chapotin completed fellowships at Iowa State University, the National Academies and the American Association for the Advancement of Science working on issues of scientific communication, national security and agricultural biotechnology. She further conducted research on forest ecology and canopy biology throughout the U.S., Madagascar and Costa Rica. Chapotin holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from Stanford University and a doctorate in plant physiology from Harvard University.
About our fourteenth speaker, Anastasia Bodnar
About our fifteenth speaker, Mashal Husain
About the sixteenth speaker, Heidi Kühn
About our seventeenth speaker, Megan Wilkerson
About our eighteenth speaker, Hale Ann Tufan
About our nineteenth speaker, Saweda Liverpool-Tasie
About our twentieth speaker, Pilu Giraudo
About our twenty-first speaker, Natasha Santos
About our twenty-second speaker, Julianna LeMieux
About our twenty-third speaker, Inbal Becker-Reshef
About our twenty-fourth speaker, Inga Jacobs-Mata
About our twenty-fifth speaker, Julia Sibiya
About our twenty-sixth speaker, Ertharin Cousin
About our twenty-sixth speaker, Tarifa Alzaabi
About our twenty-seventh speaker, Yvonne Pinto
About our twenty-eight speaker, Alison Van Eenennaam
About our twenty-ninth speaker, Nic Bennett
About our thirtieth speaker, Carolina Inés Pan
About our thirty-first speaker, Martha Haile
About our thirty-second speaker, Tania Eulalia Martinez Cruz
About our thirty-second speaker, Enid Perez-Lara