Kimberlee Chambers works throughout food system supply chains to support farm viability and sustainability initiatives. Currently she is the Director of Business Development and Sustainability at RainSweet, an IQF fruit and vegetable processor in the heart of Oregon’s Willamette Valley and serves as a Board Member for The Wetlands Conservancy, Sustainable Northwest, and the Oregon Agriculture Trust. Kimberlee’s roots in agriculture and conservation run deep — since growing up on a family farm in Ontario, Canada, she has conducted multiple applied agricultural research projects with farmers and First Nations communities in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico while earning her Doctorate and Master of Science in agroecology and ethnobiology from University of California, Davis and the University of Victoria, in British Columbia.