Previous to Berkeley, she was at Brown University where she worked at the Center for Environmental Studies. Kathy completed her Ph.D. in Environment and Resources at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where her dissertation involved an extended case study of the national Polish organic agriculture sector. Kathy was born in Great Falls, Montana and raised in the Swan Valley, on a 12-acre farm near Ferndale. She is an avid supporter of working farms, forests and ranches, a well loved instructor, and a respected researcher.