Our Team
Our Team

Jo Ann Baumgartner
Executive Director
Jo Ann is the author of many publications on the intersection between biodiversity conservation and agriculture, including beneficial birds, the conservation mandates within the National... Read more

Shelly Connor
Deputy Director
Prior to joining WFA in 2015, Shelly served for six years as the associate director of the Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides based in... Read more

Brian Fagundes
Program Assistant
Brian is from Hanford, California, a community surrounded by industrial agriculture where canals are called creeks and reservoirs named lakes. The Sierra Nevada looms large... Read more

Nick Filannino
GrizzlyCorps Fellow
GrizzlyCorps is an AmeriCorps program designed by Project Climate at UC Berkeley’s Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment in partnership with CaliforniaVolunteers. This program... Read more

Ashley Chesser
Communications & Development Manager
Ashley is an avid gardener and advocate for creating healthy habitat on farms and in community spaces. She brings over ten years of... Read more
Consultants
Karen Van Epen
Copy Editor
Tony Fleming
Naturalist, Geologist and former Organic Inspector
Jody Padgham
Bookkeeper