Sarah Fulton-Smith

Sarah joined AFT in March of 2023 and leads AFT’s program in Texas. As a seventh generation Texan, she cares deeply about leading programs that improve the resilience of Texas’ working lands and the farmers and ranchers that steward them. Sarah is a soil ecologist and has worked at the intersection of agriculture and climate change throughout her career as a policy advocate, a researcher, and a farm owner/ operator. She worked in Washington, DC as a Senior Associate for Climate and Energy at the United Nations Foundation, and as a consultant for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization focused on advancing sustainable land use and bioenergy policy efforts through stakeholder engagement and consensus building. For several years, she operated her own farm and horse training business in Maryland where she collaborated with local partners to permanently protect her farm and implement several conservation agreements. Sarah holds a BS in Bioenvironmental Sciences from Texas A&M University, an MPA in Environmental Science and Policy from Columbia University, and a PhD is Soil Science from Colorado State University. Her research interests are soil organic matter formation and the provision of ecosystem services and carbon sequestration in agroecosystems.