With over fifteen years of project design and management experience, Jessy Beckett Parr is dedicated to bringing teams together to create positive change. With extensive knowledge of agriculture and food systems, Beckett Parr holds a Master of Science degree in community development from the University of California, Davis, a certificate in ecological horticulture from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Sarah Lawrence College. Jessy is now the Foundation Director at CCOF (California Certified Organic Farmers).  Prior to joining CCOF, she spent five years producing a global documentary on soil and food systems, Symphony of the Soil.

Outside of the office, she enjoys sharing time and food with her husband and daughter, and foraging on their peri-urban homestead.