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Sarah is an Emmy-award-winning film producer, an organic farmer, and an activist for environmental, educational, and gender issues. Sarah has served as a producer, or executive producer, on notable recent films including, Birdman (Academy Award for Best Picture), The Glorias (Sundance 2020), Spaceship Earth (Sundance 2020), The Immigrant, Submergence, Blood Ties, Devil Knot, Joe, Catch and Release, Lost Child, The Green Inferno, etc. Her social-issue documentaries include The Great Hack, the Academy-Award-nominated The Square, Chasing Ice, The Invisible War, The Hunting Ground and Living in Emergency: Stories Of Doctors Without Borders. Sarah is on the boards of St.Lawrence University, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and the Woodstock Film Festival.
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Kathleen is the President of the Glynwood Center for Regional Food and Farming, the Founder of Pleiades, a national constellation of women changemakers and serves a Co-Director of the Rome Sustainable Food Project at the American Academy of Rome, founded by Alice Waters. An experienced non-profit leader, writer and network builder, she is particularly interested in empowering women and historically marginalized individuals to address our most pressing issues, especially humanity’s relationship with the natural world.
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Tyler Love is the Chief Technology Officer and founding employee at Bustle Digital Group, a New York City-based media company. Since 2012, he has helped the company launch and acquire many of the most iconic brands in media through a technology-driven strategy. . He's now looking for ways to use his experience to empower modern farming with technology, software, and media strategies.
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Craig is a writer/producer/director with three Emmy nominations at major broadcast networks who specializes in news magazine and documentary feature work. Craig is Founder of the Will Allen Foundation, creating philanthropic and communications strategies for Will Allen’s sustainable urban agriculture center and creative consultant to Alice Waters, of the Eligible Schoolyard, well known activist and celebrity who sparked a national movement towards local, organic, sustainably sourced food. Craig is also Operations Manager for celebrity photographer Annie Liebowitz. Prior to his philanthropic and agriculture work, Craig was a senior producer at Turner Broadcasting working internationally for CNN.
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President of Scenic Hudson since 1999, Ned Sullivan has directed the organization through a period of dramatic growth in its regional impact. Today Scenic Hudson is recognized as a regional and national leader in its field, recipient of the Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill Medal in 2007 and the Land Trust Alliance’s National Land Trust Excellence Award in 2011. As deputy commissioner of New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation from 1987 to 1995, Mr. Sullivan was charged with starting up the state’s $1-billion hazardous waste cleanup initiative and oversaw air, water and waste management programs, as well as passage of federal and state Superfund laws. He also served on a Presidential task force that created an innovative federal-state loan program to finance billions of dollars in wastewater treatment infrastructure across the country and implemented the program in New York. Mr. Sullivan earned a B.A. in political science and a coordinate degree in environmental studies from Williams College and master’s degrees from Yale University’s School of Management and School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Mr. Sullivan received the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Distinguished Service Award in 2012.
Board of Directors/ Advisory Board
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Born in Kingston, NY, and raised in Saugerties. Since he was young, Jonathan has been captivated by nature—its beauty, mysteries, and what makes it thrive. He was taught the importance of organically grown foods and conserving our planet’s habitats and wildlife, leaving him with a feeling of a personal responsibility to do what he can to make a difference in the world, no matter the scale. Working with seeds for the past 10 years, although those first six years were coffee beans that were roasted, ground, and brewed to be enjoyed as a beverage, during that time he had the opportunity to learn about coffee farming practices and realized how intricate and versatile just one plant can be. This knowledge ultimately inspired him to join the farm crew to pursue a much more fulfilling career. Jonathan will keep growing as we do. This is his fourth year at the farm and his first year officially as White Feather Farm’s Greenhouse and Field Planning Manager. Continuing his duties of sowing and nursing the majority of our seeds for transplant, overseeing microgreen production, and collaborating with the crew to achieve another successful season.
Farm
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Bill Hilgendorf grew up in Boston MA, but fell in love with furniture design and interiors while living in Stockholm, Sweden, in search of his roots. After graduating from Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in industrial design he moved to Brooklyn and co-founded the multi-disciplinary design firm Uhuru in 2003. For two decades Bill has employed design to tell the story of discarded objects and underutilized materials. In 2016 Bill co-founded Wilderkill a family retreat in the Catskill mountains as a place for small groups and families to connect with nature and learn more about their environmental impact. After at trip to Gothenburg Sweden in 2019 to study innovation in sustainability, Bill stepped back from day to day operations at uhuru in to focus his energy more directly on the climate crisis. With a growing obsession with Biochar, he co-founded Eldr Six as a launchpad dedicated to developing and showcasing upcycled carbon negative materials and products. With the singular focus on localized material innovation around Biochar he is working on the next generation of carbon sequestration and net-zero products. Currently Bill lives and works in between Brooklyn and the Catskills with his wife and fellow designer Maria Cristina and their two children.
www.williamhilgendorf.com
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Kris is a local herbarium artist and passionate nature advocate living just outside Woodstock, She has collected 100 plus plants just from her 5 acre property in Saugerties alone! Kris was awarded a grant through the Susanna Meyer Creative Arts Award in 2020 that culminated in a 2021 plant collection exhibit at The Lamb Center in Saugerties,.
For over 25 years Kris has been overseeing greenhouses, gardens and indoor plant collections for both businesses and estates throughout the Hudson Valley.
Kris has earned a certification in botany through The New York Botanical Garden , her artwork is sold privately.
https://www.goflowergo.com/
Research Staff
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Born and raised in Saugerties, Jake is a modern renaissance man who can split rails for a new fence, oversee the building of a house, design a new chicken coop, cut down willows, a hemlock, fix a tractor, a greenhouse boiler, sap, boil, and produce maple syrup, lead kids education workshops, and much more. We can depend on Jake to keep the farm running smoothly with a twinkle in his eyes, a smile, and humor, much needed when the pipes freeze at 4 a.m. Coming from a long line of professional maintenance and property managers, as our Farm Operations and Property Manager, Jake oversees and manages the daily workings of our facilities, troubleshoots as challenges arise, and manages special projects as we continue to grow.