AAC Membership
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Aliasghar Montazar, President
Van Butsic, Past President
VACANT, President-Elect
Phoebe Gordon, Secretary
VACANT, Specialist Chair
Devii Rao, Advisor Chair
Tunyalee Martin and Andy Lyons, 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
Khaled Bali | Irrigation & Water Specialist | Kearney Research & Extension Center
Andre Biscaro | Irrigation & Water Advisor | Ventura/Los Angeles/San Bernardino
Mary Blackburn | Nutrition, Family & Consumer Sciences Advisor | Alameda
Anne Iaccopucci | 4-H Academic Coordinator | Statewide
Michael Rethwisch | Ag Advisor | Riverside
Etaferahu Takele | Farm Management & Agricultural Economics Advisor | Riverside/San Bernardino/Ventura/San Luis Obispo/Imperial
Van Butsic, AAC President ex-officio
John Karlik, Ad Hoc Subcommittee | Environmental Horticulture Advisor
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Susie Kocher, Chair| Forestry & Natural Resources Advisor | Central Sierra/El Dorado
Daniela Bruno | Dairy Advisor | Fresno/Madera
Safeeq Khan | Water and Watershed Sciences Specialist | UC Merced
Keith Nathaniel | 4-H Youth Development Advisor/County Director | Los Angeles
Karrie Reid | Environmental Horticulture Advisor | San Joaquin
VACANT
PROGRAM COUNCIL LIAISON
Georgios Vidalakis, Liaison | Plant Pathology Specialist | UC Riverside
RULES & ELECTIONS COMMITTEE
Whitney Brim-DeForest, Chair | Rice Advisor/County Director | Sutter/Yuba
Aliasghar Montazar | Water Advisor | Imperial/Riverside
Julie Finzel | Rangeland Advisor | Kern
Pramod Pandey | Veterinary Medicine Specialist | UC Davis
VACANT
WELFARE & BENEFITS COMMITTEE
Ben Faber, Co-Chair| Advisor | Ventura/Santa Barbara
Rebecca Ozeran, Co-Chair| Livestock & Natural Resources Advisor | Fresno/Madera
Matthew Shapero | Livestock & Range 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
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
President Elect TBD
ADVISOR REPRESENTATIVE COMMITTEE
Devii Rao, Chair | Area Livestock & Natural Resources Advisor | San Benito/Monterey/Santa Cruz
Fadzayi Mashiri | Livestock & Natural Resources Advisor/County Director | Mariposa/Merced
Natalie Price | Livestock & Natural Resources Advisor/County Director | Mariposa/Merced
Jhalendra Rijal | Integrated Pest Management | Stanislaus/San Joaquin/Merced
Sonia Rios | Subtropical Horticulture | Riverside/San Diego
Ryan Tompkins | Forestry & Natural Resources | Plumas/Sierra/Lassen
Mohammad Yaghmour | Orchard Systems | Kern/Kings
MULTIPLE ACADEMIC TITLES REPRESENTATIVE COMMITTEE
Annemiek Schilder, Chair | Director | Hansen REC
Karina Diaz Rios | CE Specialist | UC Merced
Peter Larbi | CE Specialist | Kearney REC
Max Moritz | CE Specialist | UC Santa Barbara
Doug Parker | Director | California Institute for Water Resources
Tapan Pathak | CE Specialist | UC Merced
VACANT
UC BERKELEY SPECIALIST REPRESENTATIVE COMMITTEE
Susana Matias, AAC Representative | Specialist | UC Berkeley
UC DAVIS SPECIALIST REPRESENTATIVE COMMITTEE
Jackson Gross and Daniel Geisseler | AAC Representatives | Specialist | UC Davis
UC RIVERSIDE SPECIALIST REPRESENTATIVE COMMITTEE
Ashraf El-Kereamy, AAC Representative | Specialist | UC Riverside