The affairs of NSAC are governed by the Organizational Council.\u00a0 Along with the NSAC Coalition Director, the Organizational Council establishes the NSAC mission, oversees strategic planning and development, evaluates NSAC\u2019s effectiveness, and provides financial oversight and approval of the annual budget.\u00a0 The Organizational Council also approves membership applications to NSAC.\u00a0 Nominated and elected by both Represented and Participating Members, Organizational Council members serve two-year terms and meet at least bi-monthly.<\/p>\n
The members of the Organizational Council are:<\/strong><\/p>\n Rodger Cooley, Chair<\/strong><\/p>\n Chicago Food Policy Action Council (IL)<\/p>\n Simone Benz, Vice Chair<\/strong><\/p>\n Sustainable Food Center (TX)<\/p>\n Melissa Vatterott, Treasurer<\/strong><\/p>\n Missouri Coalition for the Environment (MO)<\/p>\n Hannah Tremblay, Secretary<\/strong><\/p>\n Farm Aid (MA\/National)<\/p>\n —-<\/p>\n Brien Darby<\/strong><\/p>\n Cultivate Kansas City (MO\/KS)<\/p>\n Amalie Lipstreu<\/strong><\/p>\n California Climate and Agriculture Network (CA\/OH\/Midwest)<\/p>\n Grace Oedel<\/strong><\/p>\n Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont (VT)<\/p>\n Vanessa Garcia Polanco<\/strong><\/p>\n Young Farmers (DC\/National)<\/p>\n Jennifer Silveri<\/strong><\/p>\n Michigan Food & Farming Systems (MI)<\/p>\n Lori Stern<\/strong><\/p>\n Marbleseed (WI)<\/p>\n Allie Wainer<\/strong><\/p>\n Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (MD\/National)<\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The affairs of NSAC are governed by the Organizational Council.\u00a0 Along with the NSAC Coalition Director, the Organizational Council establishes the NSAC mission, oversees strategic planning and development, evaluates NSAC\u2019s effectiveness, and provides financial oversight and approval of the annual budget.\u00a0 The Organizational Council also approves membership applications to NSAC.\u00a0 Nominated and elected by both […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":43,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-148","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry","6":"clb-missing-post-thumbnail"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n