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As Policy Coordinator, Wes is monitoring sustainable agriculture and local food related legislation in Springfield at the State House and helping to coordinate the Springfield Local Food Task Force. In addition, Wes is working on organizing, coordinating, and building the capacity of grassroots capacity to influence policy decisions in Illinois.
Prior to joining ISA, Wes was an organizer at the Illinois Environmental Council conducting policy work for a statewide coalition of environmental organizations. Wes has a BA in Political Studies from the University of Illinois at Springfield and an MA in Political Studies from UIS. While working on his MA, Wes interned at the Illinois EPA and studied the effects of globalization on agriculture in Latin America. Whether it was helping with his father’s organic garden as a child, his experience in the Boy Scouts, or his academic experiences with globalization and agriculture issues in the global south, Wes has always been interested and concerned with society’s metabolic relationship with nature. Following in his father’s footsteps Wes has become an avid organic gardener himself.
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