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Chelsea Gazillo is American Farmland Trust’s Senior California Policy Manager. In this role, she is responsible for conducting research, providing education to stakeholders, policy development and analysis, and outreach. She also works in collaboration with other policy leaders, land trusts, and farmers in the state to advance policies that are aligned with the AFT mission.

Prior to joining the AFT California Policy team, Chelsea spent seven years at the AFT Connecticut Working Lands Alliance Director and four years at the AFT New England Policy Manager. Prior to joining AFT, Chelsea served as a Food Policy AmeriCorps VISTA member with the Bridgeport Food Policy Council and the Bridgeport Farmers Market Collaborative. She was also a lead researcher for SIT Graduate Institute’s Real Food Challenge Campaign and as an Intern for the Food Chain Workers Alliance.

Chelsea holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies from Humboldt State University in Arcata, CA, and a Master’s in Sustainable Development with an emphasis on policy advocacy and analysis from SIT Graduate Institute in Brattleboro, VT. In her free time, she enjoys fermenting locally grown foods, gardening, traveling, biking, visiting farms, and hiking in Northern California.