Throughout his career, Evan has immersed himself in the organic agriculture movement in California and the PNW. He's worked as a farm manager on several diversified organic farms and taught at the Center for Agroecology in Santa Cruz, CA. He earned a bachelor's degree in Environmental Studies with a concentration in Agroecology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he first became interested in seed saving and plant breeding. Now a PhD student at Washington State University, Evan is working on a Foundation for Food and Agricultural Research-funded project studying how soil health impacts the nutritional quality of quinoa grown in Western Washington. He is also involved in developing new dry bean, buckwheat, and quinoa varieties that perform well in the PNW. Evan is passionate about the intersection of plant breeding, soil science, seed sovereignty, and, ultimately, agriculture's effect on our changing climate. Outside of his work, he loves baking, preserving, and brewing anything he can get his hands on.