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Bonnie McGill (she/her) joined AFT in 2022. As a member of the AFT Climate and Soil Health Initiative, she contributes her expertise in biogeochemistry, ecology, geospatial and statistical modeling, climate communication, knowledge co-production, and social science toward transitioning US ag from a net source of greenhouse gases to net removal of atmospheric carbon in ways that are equitable and inclusive. At AFT Bonnie has led projects looking 50 years into the future of climate change and soil health and on the potential climate mitigation from avoided farmland conversion and smart development. Currently, she is leading the development of systems for data collection, management (including data privacy and sovereignty), and reporting across several organizations for two USDA Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities projects. In the climate-smart beef Partnership project Bonnie supports AFT’s partner, Indigo, who leads the estimation of changes in soil carbon and greenhouse gas emissions due to practice adoption (AKA MMRV). Bonnie also supports climate work across AFT including work with the Water Initiative, Midwest Region, Women For the Land, Land Use and Protection Research Initiative, and more. She represents AFT in the US Nature4Climate’s Science Working Group and US Climate Alliance’s National Working Lands group.

Before joining AFT, Bonnie was a science communication fellow at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and a David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellow. She earned her Ph.D. in ecosystem ecology from Michigan State University. Bonnie has published in journals like Science Communication, PLoS One, Global Change Biology, Hydrogeology Journal, and People and Nature as well as Scientific American.

She is an Appalachian, a dog-mom to Lucy, and lives in the area now known as Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania–the ancestral lands and rivers of the Seneca, Monongahela, Lenape, Shawnee, Wyandot, and Osage peoples.