I grew up exploring and photographing the forests and streams of the Finger Lakes region, calling Ithaca, NY, home. I choose to stay in the area and study at Cornell where I double-majored in International Agriculture & Rural Development and Communications, a program which has never stopped being a mouthful to say. I spent the summers of my college years trying to gain experience working with agricultural NGOs in faraway places: Mexico, Ecuador and Sri Lanka. In Mexico, I worked with (but mostly learned from) a sustainable agriculture outreach organization called CEDICAM using the farmer-to-farmer model. Through a class at Cornell, I worked with a coffee cooperative in Ecuador to develop a soil health manual for their farmers. In Sri Lanka, I interned with the FAO as a communications assistant where I primarily sat in the office and drank tea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After graduation, like many students, I felt I had too many ambitions and ideas swirling around my head to think clearly. I resolved to work in the fields of education, agriculture, and media production, especially where they intersect. I decided to stay in my hometown and work promoting the benefits of outdoor free play for children with the Ithaca Children’s Garden and the Ithaca City School District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2017 I began working with the Cornell Small Farms Program producing short vignettes of Farmer Veterans (veterans who have transitioned into agriculture). In 2020 I was excited to join the Small Farms Team and continue to work at the intersection of agriculture, media production and education. I will support the work of the program by telling the stories of New York farmers and farmworkers, by producing educational content for online courses, and by producing a podcast highlighting stories from the world of Northeast farmers.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"featured_media":26102,"template":"single-people-item","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","_ecp_custom_2":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"project_collection":[],"class_list":["post-26100","people","type-people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"job_title":"Multimedia Assistant","job_title_source":{"label":"Job Title","type":"text","formatted_value":"Multimedia Assistant"},"author_archive_url":"https:\/\/smallfarms.cornell.edu\/author\/jpj46\/","author_archive_url_source":{"label":"Author Archive URL","type":"url","formatted_value":"https:\/\/smallfarms.cornell.edu\/author\/jpj46\/"},"display_email_address":"jpj46@cornell.edu","display_email_address_source":{"label":"Display Email Address","type":"email","formatted_value":"jpj46@cornell.edu"},"team_status":"Current","team_status_source":{"label":"Team Status","type":"select","formatted_value":"Current"},"team_type":"Staff","team_type_source":{"label":"Team Type","type":"select","formatted_value":"Staff"},"phone_number":"","phone_number_source":{"label":"Phone Number","type":"text","formatted_value":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallfarmsupport.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/26100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallfarmsupport.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallfarmsupport.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/people"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallfarmsupport.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallfarmsupport.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project_collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallfarmsupport.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_collection?post=26100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}