“Mother of organic” Merrigan at work on food policy

Kathleen Merrigan, who helped craft the organic food law in 1990 as a Senate staffer and implement it a decade later at USDA, “is an agricultural policy workhorse who calls the public policy arena her ‘playground,’” says a profile story at Greenwire. Now head of George Washington University’s sustainability office, Merrigan, a former deputy agriculture secretary,… » Read More