Our Staff
Mark Bomford
Director
Mark Bomford is the Director of the Yale Sustainable Food Program and was the founding Director of the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at the University of British Columbia (UBC). His current research, in cooperation with the University of Oxford’s School of Geography and Environment, explores Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA), more-than-human ecologies, and enclosure in practice and theory. Mark belongs to settler family, raised on and off-grid in northern British Columbia on Treaty 8 territory. He farmed for a decade on the unceded ancestral territory of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓-speaking xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people and currently lives, works, and vicariously farms on traditional Quinnipiac lands. He’s been interested in climate change and sustainable agriculture since the mid-1990s, exploring and attempting to work with its challenges and contradictions through physics, philosophy, art, agroecology, commercial farming, community activism, science and technology studies, and human geography.
Jacqueline Munno
Programs Manager for International & Professional Experience
Since joining the then-Project in 2009, Jacqueline has been committed to placing Yale students and alumni at the helm of the ever-changing food system. She envisions, develops, and manages a range of extramural programs, particularly international and pre-professional experiences, for students across academic disciplines. Jacqueline organizes education events at the Yale Farm and manages the wood-fired hearth oven. Before coming to Yale, Jacqueline received a M.A. in Food Culture from Slow Food’s University of Gastronomic Sciences in Parma, Italy, and a B.A. in French Studies and International Affairs from the University of New Hampshire. She came to the Project from Navdanya, a network of seed-keepers and organic producers in New Delhi, India, where she was an assistant to Dr. Vandana Shiva. Jacqueline serves on the board of the National Young Farmer’s Coalition, is an Affiliate Member of the New Haven Food Policy Council, a Senior Fellow of the Environmental Leadership Program, a member of Les Dames d’Escoffier International and proud to be a Pierson College Fellow. Jacqueline is a home cook with Armenian roots who loves feeding people.
Jeremy Oldfield
Manager of Field Academics
Jeremy manages the Yale Farm and coordinates on-farm academic programming. During the academic year, he works closely with Yale College students and graduate students on agricultural and pedagogical projects. During the summer, Jeremy directs farm programing and course study for the Lazarus Summer Internship. He graduated from Williams College in 2005 with a degree in American Studies. In 2012, he received a MFA degree in Writing and Literature at the Bennington Writing Seminars. Jeremy’s food and farming experience includes field manager positions in California and Maine (including Eliot Coleman’s Four Season Farm), and founding The Freelance Farmers, a company that consulted schools, restaurants, and homeowners on customized agricultural infrastructure and programing.
Fafa Van Ha
LAZARUS FELLOW IN FOOD & AGRICULTURE
Fafa manages educational programming and strategic communications for the YSFP. She graduated from Yale College with a B.S. in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and a certificate in Energy Studies in 2022. Before joining the YSFP, Fafa served as a fellow at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Center for One Health Research working with community members, public health researchers, and practicing veterinarians, where she was exposed to the relations between Food Security and Food Sovereignty. At the YSFP, Fafa coordinates the Camp Yale Harvest Program, directs knead 2 know events, the Chewing the Fat speaker series and podcast, and works closely with student leaders to develop meaningful programming. Her interests lie in ecological approaches to food sovereignty.