[Crwt-undergrad-info] Fwd: Grow Conference 2025 Keynote Speaker Highlight: Christine Birdsong and Gary Nabhan (+ RSVP Details)

[Allison Hedge Coke]

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Date: Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Subject: Grow Conference 2025 Keynote Speaker Highlight: Christine Birdsong
and Gary Nabhan (+ RSVP Details)
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Catch our keynote speakers by RSVP'ing for the FREE Grow Conference (2/27
to 2/28)!

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2025 Grow Conference
Keynote Speaker Announcement

We are pleased to announce our *two keynote speakers for our 2025 Grow
Conference*: Undersecretary of the California Department of Food and
Agriculture, *Christine Birdsong
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and agricultural ecologist, ethnobotanist, and author, *Gary Nabhan
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KEYNOTE SPEAKER HIGHLIGHT: Christine Birdsong
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Christine Birdsong was appointed by Governor Newsom as Undersecretary of
the California Department of Food and Agriculture. Birdsong has worked in
agricultural policy at the state and national level for 15 years.

She was previously Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Director of
People and Culture for the Sun Valley Rice Company, where she handled state
and federal regulatory compliance and corporate legal issues.

She has also served as General Counsel for the National Cotton Council of
America, Counsel for the Committee on Agriculture for the United States
House of Representatives and Federal Government Affairs Leader for CropLife
America. Birdsong earned a Juris Doctor degree from the UC College of the
Law, San Francisco, and is a UC Berkeley alumni.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER HIGHLIGHT: Gary Nabhan
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Gary Nabhan's work focuses primarily on the interaction of biodiversity and
cultural diversity of the arid binational Southwest. He is considered a
pioneer in the local food movement and the heirloom seed saving movement.

He co-founded Native Seeds/SEARCH, a non-profit conservation organization
that conserves more than 1800 regional Southwestern seed varieties to
preserve and prioritize communities in the desert region.

Nabhan serves as the Kellogg Endowed Chair in Southwestern Borderlands Food
and Water Security. There, he founded the Center for Regional Food Studies
and catalyzed the initiative to have UNESCO designate Tucson, AZ as the
first City of Gastronomy in the U.S.
RSVP for the Grow Conference 2/27 to 2/28

The 2025 Grow Conference is happening from February 27 and 28, 2025. To
hear from Birdsong, Nabhan and our other session speakers, *reserve your
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In addition to our keynote speakers, we have multiple tracks and breakout
sessions, don't miss out on this wonderful, FREE opportunity to attend the
2025 Grow Conference
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