CSWA Staff and Consultants

Staff

Allison Lengauer Jordan

is Executive Director of CSWA and also Wine Institute's Director of Environmental Affairs, providing program management and support for the Sustainable Winegrowing Program. She previously served as SureHarvest's Sustainability Services Senior Associate and as Vice President and Acting Executive Director for the San Francisco-based Resource Renewal Institute. Allison holds a Masters degree from the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley and is a fellow with the German Marshall Fund's Marshall Memorial Fellowship Program.

Lisa Francioni

is Project Manager for CSWA and also Wine Institute's Environmental Affairs Coordinator. She has worked on the Sustainable Winegrowing Program since 2005 and helps manage the SWP and the new third-party certification program CCSW-Certified. Previously, Lisa was a project coordinator and communications manager at Sustainable Monterey Bay and worked for environmental and planning consulting firms in England. She graduated with a BA in Environmental Studies and a BA in Politics from UC Santa Cruz. Lisa recently received a Master's of Science in Environmental Management from the University of San Francisco, and completed  her master's paper on the role of sustainability programs in communicating and enhancing the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices in California winegrapes, almonds, pears and citrus.

Consultants

Andrew Arnold

is a Senior Associate at SureHarvest and has provided consulting and project management services for the development and implementation of the online SWP application. In his 20+ year career in the agri-food industry, he has focused on the intersection of information technology and business. Most recently, Andrew was with John Deere''s FoodOrigins group looking at supply chain management and information sharing tools. He also spent 10 years at E&J Gallo Winery working on management information systems for the grape supply, logistics, and winemaking sector of the business.

Franklin Dlott

is an Account Manager at SureHarvest and has over 5 years of experience providing consulting support to the statewide Sustainable Winegrowing Program, including managing the SWP assessment database and data entry process as well as providing analysis and reports to CSWA and SWP participants. He has a Master''s degree in Plant Science and is experienced in extension, technology transfer and on-farm research. He spent 10 years working as the University of California Cooperative Extension Entomology Farm Advisor in Monterey, San Benito and Santa Cruz Counties.

Dr. Joe Browde

is the Professional Services Manager at SureHarvest. Joe has been working on the Sustainable Winegrowing Program since 2002 and served as CSWA's Senior Project Manager from 2004 until May 2010. His work includes organization of Integrated Pest Management workshops and educational activities, management of a new project on performance-based metrics on energy, GHG emissions and water, and he contributes to general strategic planning. He holds Ph.D. and Masters degrees in Entomology from Iowa State University, and has over 15 years of experience working with the agriculture industry.

Dr. Jeff Dlott

Co-founder and Principal of SureHarvest, a consulting firm that provides strategic and technical consulting services on the sustainability of managed and natural ecosystems - is a chief consultant on the SWP program. Jeff received his Ph.D. in entomology at UC Berkeley. He has extensive experience working with public-private partnerships to increase the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices throughout the US with private companies, NGOs, private foundations, and state and federal government agencies. Jeff also brings special expertise in data management systems, to help measure the progress and results of the project.

John Garn

is a resource consultant and Co-founder of ViewCraft. His has worked with private, non-profit and governmental entities such as the US EPA, Cal/EPA, the Association of Bay Area Governments, Wine Institute, California Association of Winegrape Growers, the Sonoma Green Business Program, and several other organizations. He has worked in many capacities on the statewide Sustainable Winegrowing Program - as a writer, strategic planner, facilitator, and expert on energy efficiency - since its early stages of the program.

Dr. Ann Thrupp

is an Associate/Consultant for CSWA and serves as Manager of Organic Development at Fetzer Vineyards. Ann served as Managing Director of CSWA from March 2005 through March 2007. Ann has more than 20 years experience in sustainable agriculture. She worked as Life Scientist at U.S. EPA Region 9, consultant to Robert Mondavi Winery and the Funders Agricultural Working Group, and Director of Sustainable Agriculture at World Resources Institute. She has a Ph.D. from Sussex University, U.K., a BA from Stanford University and is a graduate of the California Agricultural Leadership Program. She has published numerous books and articles. Ann will be providing oversight and coordination for this risk management project, and assistance in the writing of the report.

In-Kind Staff

Camron King

is the Program Director for the California Association of Winegrape Growers and serves as an alternate board member of the CSWA. Camron has worked with CAWG since 2002, working with State Government Affairs, regulatory issues, sponsorship and program development for the Unified Wine & Grape Symposium and numerous other projects.

Nancy Light

Wine Institute's Director of Communications is responsible for guiding the organization's media relations, member communications and issues management agenda, including the Sustainable Winegrowing Program. Light rejoined Wine Institute in 2004 after a seven year hiatus, during which time she had her own consultancy serving clients including Stag's Leap Wine Cellars, MKF and Talisman Wines and was Vice President of Public Relations for Robert Mondavi from 1996-2003. Light holds a Marketing B.A. from SUNY at Fashion Institute of Technology.