Board Members

Judy Einach

Judy chairs the NYSAWG Board. She has a particular interest in the conflict arising over farmland for fuel production versus farmland for food production and the special impact this has on small farmers. She led an innovative microenterprise program in Buffalo, NY that encouraged entrepreneurial ventures developing value-added products from regional foods. She is on the Executive Development Team for Comestibles, a for-profit green grocery designed to support and strengthen regional food systems. She earned her Masters from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Mary Smith

My connection to NYSAWG comes from growing up on a small family farm, from representing an ecumenical perspective because of my participating in Church Women United NYS, and from my own faith journey.

Elliot Brodsky

As Managing Director of Catalyst Information Network, I specialize in helping companies and institutions develop new opportunities and attract new customers through strategic intelligence and effective planning. I also work with a New York corporation and a professor from a university located in New York fractionating organic materials to develop value-added products for the marketplace. I believe NYSAWG’s mission of supporting the integration of economically viable local and regional food systems adds value for homeland security.

Meredith Taylor

Margo Morris

Hank Herrera

Hank founded The Center for Popular Research, Education and Policy, devoted to participatory action research, capacity-building and policy development with communities seeking to achieve self-reliance. Through C-PREP Hank provides management services for the New York Sustainable Agriculture Working Group and the Rooted in Community Network of youth engaged in community food security projects. Previously he did neighborhood revitalization work in the predominantly African American and Puerto Rican neighborhoods in the northeast quadrant of Rochester, New York. He co-founded the NorthEast Neighborhood Alliance and Greater Rochester Urban Bounty, an urban agriculture and regional food system infrastructure project funded by the Kellogg Foundation Food and Society Initiative. Hank serves on the Board of FoodRoutes Network, a national organization that provides marketing infrastructure for local food systems; the Institute for Food and Development Policy – Food First, devoted to the elimination of the injustices that cause hunger; and the Center for Whole Communities, dedicated to nurturing the relationship between people and the land. Hank is a psychiatrist, a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar and a Kellogg National Fellow. He maintains a part-time private practice of psychiatry in Rochester.