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Chelsea Gazillo is American Farmland Trust’s Senior New England Policy Manager and Director of AFT’s Working Lands Alliance. In these roles, 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 and farmers in the region to advance policies that are aligned with the AFT mission. 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. Before that, she worked as 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. She sits on the Holyoke, MA Conservation Commission, and in her free time, she enjoys fermenting locally grown foods, gardening, traveling, biking, and hiking in the valley with her sweet dog Layla.