Alexandra Lemmer

Originally from Los Angeles, Ally made her way up California. She earned a Bachelor's in Sociology and Latin American/Latin@ Studies from UC Santa Cruz, where she interned with Life Lab and the Friends of the Community Agroecology Network (FoCAN). She then dedicated two terms of AmeriCorps service. First with AmeriCorps*NCCC in the southwest focused on various community projects in Arizona, Colorado and Missouri. And second, with FoodCorps, in Santa Cruz County with Life Lab and Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF) focusing on farm to school efforts. She then continued to lead FoodCorps service members statewide as the FoodCorps CA State Fellow.

Just prior to her current role, she was an elementary school teacher in Oakland and Fair Oaks. She taught 2nd grade in East Oakland after earning her Master's in Education focusing on elementary literacy and then subsequently earned a Montessori Elementary Certificate while teaching 1st - 3rd grade at a Montessori public charter in Sacramento County. In the classroom she focused on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts in her lessons as well as social-emotional learning. 

As the 4-H Healthy Living Academic Coordinator, Ally supports the 4-H Healthy Living Initiative in support with CalFresh Healthy Living, UC and EFNEP, by offering programs that address the nutritional, physical, emotional and social health needs through a health equity lens.