Dr. Kate Clancy is one of the nation's leading authorities on food systems. She brings a wealth of experience to UCS on topics including food policy, sustainable agriculture, organic food, food safety, advertising and messaging, food systems planning, and community nutrition.

Dr. Clancy has a PhD in Nutrition Sciences from the University of California at Berkeley and taught at Cornell and Syracuse Universities. She also served as managing director of the Wallace Center for Agricultural and Environmental Policy at Winrock International and director of the Agriculture Policy Project at the Center. She was nutritionist and policy advisor at the Federal Trade Commission, and a resident fellow at the National Center for Food and Agriculture Policy. She has served on numerous boards and committees, and she is presently on the board of the Accokeek Foundation. She was a member of the Board on Agriculture Panel that produced the ground-breaking report "Alternative Agriculture" and has published and spoken widely on the nexus of agriculture, nutrition, and the food supply.

Her present interests, evident in her report for UCS on the nutrition aspects of pasture-raised milk and meat, include policies and policy research that will advance the grazing sector, the connected issues of farmland preservation and farm viability, and the role of agriculture in rural development.