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

Chris Greer, President

Aliasghar Montazar, Past President

 VACANT, President-Elect

Phoebe Gordon, Secretary

VACANT, Specialist Chair

Nick Clark, Advisor Chair

Kim Ingram and Andy Lyons  Academic Coordinator Co-Chairs

PERSONNEL COMMITTEE

Mark Bolda| Chair | Strawberry and Caneberry Advisor | Santa Cruz, Monterey, and San Benito Counties

Michelle Leinfelder-Miles | Past Chair | Delta Crops Resource Management Advisor | San Joaquin/Contra Costa/Sacramento/Solano/Yolo

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

Marianne Bird| 4H advisor | Capital Corridor

Jennifer Heguy| Dairy Advisor | Sanislaus, San Joaquin, and Merced Counties

Luis Espino| Rice Advisor | Butte and Glenn Counties

Chris Greer | Ex-Officio | Area IPM Advisor | San Luis Obispo County

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Daniela Bruno Chair| Dairy Advisor | Fresno, Madera Counties

Nicole Marshall-Wheeler | 4-H Youth Development Advisor | Colusa County

Giuliano Galdi | Weed Management Advisor | Merced, Stanislaus, and San Joaquin Counties

Tracy Schohr| Livestock and Natural Resources | Plumas, Sierra, and Butte Counties

Monica Cooper| Viticulture | Napa County

VACANT

RULES & ELECTIONS COMMITTEE

Julie Finzel , 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

Brian Woodward | Forestry Advisor | Santa Cruz, San Mateo, and Santa Clara Counties

WELFARE & BENEFITS COMMITTEE

Ben Faber, Co-Chair| Advisor | Ventura/Santa Barbara

Whitney Brim-DeForest | Co-Chair | County Director, Sutter and Yuba Counties and CE Rice and Wild Rice Advisor

Steven Worker | 4-H Youth Development Advisor | Sonoma and Napa Counties

Joy Hollingsworth | Viticulture Advisor | Tulare and Kings Counties

Jimmy Nguyen | Food Safety and Organic Agriculture Advisor | Imperial and Riverside Counties

ACADEMIC COORDINATOR REPRESENTATIVE COMMITTEE

Kim Ingram, Co-Chair | El Dorado County

Andy Lyons, Co-Chair | Informatics/GIS

Janice Kao, Nutrition Policy Institute

Matt Baur, Western IPM Center

Marianna Castiaux , Small Farms, Fresno County

VACANT

VACANT

ADVISOR REPRESENTATIVE COMMITTEE

Nick Clark| Chair | Agronomy and Nutrient Management | Fresno/Kings/Tulare

Jhalendra Rijal, Past Chair | Integrated Pest Management | Stanislaus/San Joaquin/Merced

Mohammad Yaghmour | Orchard Systems | Kern/Kings

Luke Milliron | Orchard Systems | Butte/Glenn/Tehema

Jeff Stackhouse | Livestock and Natural Resources Advisor | Humboldt and Del Norte Counties

Siavash Taravati | IPM Advisor | Los Angeles, Orange, and San Bernardino Counties 

Ricky Satomi | Forestry Advisor | Sutter and Yuba Counties

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

Kristen Shive, AAC Representative | Specialist | UC Berkeley

UC DAVIS SPECIALIST REPRESENTATIVE COMMITTEE

Matthew Fidelibus and Keith Taylor | AAC Representatives | Specialist | UC Davis

UC RIVERSIDE SPECIALIST REPRESENTATIVE COMMITTEE

Ashraf El-Kereamy, AAC Representative | Specialist | UC Riverside