Alyssa is Executive Director of the Artisan Grain Collaborative (AGC), a network of value chain stakeholders working to strengthen the regional staple crop system in the Upper Midwest. Alyssa earned a Master of Food and Agriculture Law and Policy from Vermont Law School and a BS in Natural Resources and Environmental Management from Ball State University. Prior to her role with AGC, Alyssa worked on a number of sustainable family farms throughout the country, a cooking school in Sicily, and spent several years in institutional procurement.