Jeri Ohmart joins SAREP

SAREP is pleased to announce the addition of Jeri Ohmart to the staff as the Biologically Integrated Farming Systems (BIFS) program assistant. She is working with BIFS coordinator Marco Barzman and with SAREP grants manager/associate BIFS coordinator Bev Ransom. She will also work on case studies of growers who attend farmers markets with Gail Feenstra, coordinator of SAREP’s community food systems section. Ohmart began working in sustainable agriculture in 1999, when she assumed responsibilities as a grant writer for the Davis-based Community Alliance with Family Farmers. Previously, she taught writing and literature at the university and community college level in the U.S. and Australia. She has a master’s degree in English literature, and earned postgraduate certificates in writing and teaching English as a second language. In 1992 she established an adult literacy program in reading and English language skills for Hmong farmers and Spanish-speaking farmworkers in Chico, Calif.