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Nessa Richman has been working as a food systems consultant since 2002. Her clients have included state departments of agriculture, organic certification programs, universities, and non-profit organizations. Her areas of expertise include research, survey and interview instrument design and implementation, quantitative and qualitative data analysis, writing, public policy analysis, and communications. Ms Richman has been working in the field of sustainable agriculture since 1993. She started as a VISTA Volunteer with the non-profit Sustainable Food Center (SFC) in Austin, Texas. In that capacity she organized a new farmers’ market in the low-income minority East Side neighborhood. She then moved within SFC to establish the Texas Sustainable Agriculture Working Group, serving as its first Coordinator. She began her research work as a Policy Analyst with the Henry A. Wallace Institute for Alternative Agriculture (now the Henry A. Wallace Center at Winrock International).
Ms Richman earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Economy of Natural Resources from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and a Master of Public Policy degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She lives in Takoma Park, Maryland with her husband and two children.