UW Organic Collaborative

Climate and the Future of Agriculture
2025-03-19 18:00 - 19:00 UTC | WI
Join us for our virtual town hall on climate and the future of agriculture in the Great Lakes region and beyond. We’ll check out an excerpt of “Weathered: Earth’s Extremes” from PBS Digital Studios and tune in to a panel discussion featuring agriculture experts.

Featured guests include:

–Professor Douglas Jackson-Smith, Kellogg Chair of Agroecosystem Management at Ohio State – College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences

-Lea Zeise, coordinator at Ohe∙láku – Among the Cornstalks and assistant director of United South and Eastern Tribes, Inc.‘s Office of Environmental Resource Management

-Dr. Erin Silva, professor and state extension specialist in organic and sustainable cropping systems in the UW-Madison Department of Plant Pathology and director of the Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems at University of Wisconsin-Madison

-Georgina Gustin, journalist covering agriculture for Inside Climate News specializing in the intersections of farming, food systems and the environment

-Tepfirah Rushdan, director of the City of Detroit Office of Sustainability
