Ann Sorensen
Senior Research Advisor
Ann oversees AFT’s research division and plays a lead role in AFT’s comprehensive national mapping project “Farms Under Threat.” While at AFT, she has managed numerous agricultural policy and applied research projects. Ann’s research has played a key role in developing four farm bills, analyzing the fiscal impacts of sprawl, and fostering private markets for the environmental benefits of farmland. Ann has directed many USDA and EPA grants and contracts and secured the participation of more than 700 researchers and practitioners in workshops, conferences, and advisory committees. She has over 70 refereed research publications and served on the EPA’s Farm, Ranch, and Rural Communities Federal Advisory Committee.
Ann holds a Bachelor of Arts in Science from the University of California at Santa Cruz and a Doctorate in Entomology from the University of California at Berkeley. The SWCS Board of Directors recently named Ann as the 2022 recipient of the Hugh Hammond Bennett Award.
