AAC Committees and Members
The Academic Assembly Council is composed of six standing committees and six representative committees. Click on the title of the committee to learn more about it and how you can get involved.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Aliasghar Montazar, President
VACANT, Past President
Chris Greer, President-Elect
Phoebe Gordon, Secretary
VACANT, Specialist Chair
Jhalendra Rijal, Advisor Chair
Tunyalee Martin and Kim Ingram, Academic Coordinator Co-Chairs
PERSONNEL COMMITTEE
Michelle Leinfelder-Miles | Chair | Delta Crops Resource Management Advisor | San Joaquin/Contra Costa/Sacramento/Solano/Yolo
Brenna Aegerter | Past-Chair | Vegetable Crops Advisor San Joaquin County
Etaferahu Takele | Farm Management & Agricultural Economics Advisor | Riverside, San Bernardino, Ventura, San Luis Obispo, and Imperial Counties
Mark Bolda | Strawberry and Caneberry Advisor | Santa Cruz, Monterey, and San Benito Counties
Karey Windbiel-Rojas | Associate Director for Urban and Community IPM & Urban and Community IPM Advisor | Yolo, Sacramento, and Solano Counties
Carolyn Rider | Nutrition Program Evaluator Academic Coordinator
Oli Bachie | Agronomy & Weed Management Advisor | San Diego and Imperial Counties
Aparna Gazula | Small Farms and Specialty Crops Advisor | Santa Clara, San Benito, and Santa Cruz Counties
Max Moritz | Fire Ecology & Management Specialist
Aliasghar Montazar, AAC ex-officio | Irrigation and Water Management Advisor, Imperial and San Diego Counties
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Daniela Bruno Chair| Dairy Advisor | Fresno, Madera Counties
Susie Kocher, Past Chair| Forestry & Natural Resources Advisor | Central Sierra/El Dorado
Safeeq Khan | Water and Watershed Sciences Specialist | UC Merced
Keith Nathaniel | 4-H Youth Development Advisor/County Director | Los Angeles
Nicole Marshall-Wheeler | 4-H Youth Development Advisor | Colusa County
Giuliano Galdi | Weed Management Advisor | Merced, Stanislaus, and San Joaquin Counties
RULES & ELECTIONS COMMITTEE
Whitney Brim-DeForest, Co-Chair | Rice Advisor/County Director | Sutter/Yuba
Julie Finzel , Co-Chair| Rangeland Advisor | Kern
Hung Doan | Small Farms and Specialty Crops Advisor | San Bernardino/Riverside Counties
Zhang Wang | Vegetable Crops Advisor | San Joaquin/Stanislaus Counties
Tobias Ebong Oker | Irrigation and Soils Management Advisor | Kern County
WELFARE & BENEFITS COMMITTEE
Ben Faber, Chair| Advisor | Ventura/Santa Barbara
Whitney Brim-DeForest | County Director, Sutter and Yuba Counties and CE Rice and Wild Rice Advisor
Amanda Linares | Nutrition Policy Institute
VACANT
VACANT
ACADEMIC COORDINATOR REPRESENTATIVE COMMITTEE
Tunyalee Martin, Co-Chair | Integrated Pest Management Communications
Kim Ingram, Co-Chair | El Dorado County
Andy Lyons, Pre President Elect | Informatics/GIS
Janice Kao, Nutrition Policy Institute
Shannon Klisch, San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties
Matt Baur, Western IPM Center
Marianna Castiaux , Small Farms, Fresno County
ADVISOR REPRESENTATIVE COMMITTEE
Jhalendra Rijal, Chair | Integrated Pest Management | Stanislaus/San Joaquin/Merced
Devii Rao Past Chair | Area Livestock & Natural Resources Advisor | San Benito/Monterey/Santa Cruz
Natalie Price | Livestock & Natural Resources Advisor/County Director | Mariposa/Merced
Ryan Tompkins | Forestry & Natural Resources | Plumas/Sierra/Lassen
Mohammad Yaghmour | Orchard Systems | Kern/Kings
Nick Clark | Agronomy and Nutrient Management | Fresno/Kings/Tulare
Luke Milliron | Orchard Systems | Butte/Glenn/Tehema
MULTIPLE ACADEMIC TITLES REPRESENTATIVE COMMITTEE
Annemiek Schilder, Chair | Director | Hansen REC
Peter Larbi | CE Specialist | Kearney REC
Max Moritz | CE Specialist | UC Santa Barbara
Lorrene Ritchie | CE Specialist and Director of the Nutrition Policy Institute
Francisco Benitez | Project Scientist | Kearney REC
Jackie Atim | CE Specialist | Kearney REC
VACANT
UC BERKELEY SPECIALIST REPRESENTATIVE COMMITTEE
Susana Matias, AAC Representative | Specialist | UC Berkeley
UC DAVIS SPECIALIST REPRESENTATIVE COMMITTEE
Linda Harris and Alireza Pourezza | AAC Representatives | Specialist | UC Davis
UC RIVERSIDE SPECIALIST REPRESENTATIVE COMMITTEE
Ashraf El-Kereamy, AAC Representative | Specialist | UC Riverside