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Susan Tveekrem - ChairSusan has been the Managing Director of the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College since 2004. Prior to this Susan managed events at the Center for the Arts at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut and toured the U.S. and India as a singer and clarinetist with the Balasaraswati Music and Dance Ensemble. She holds a Master of Arts in World Music from Wesleyan University and a Bachelor of Music from Miami University of Ohio. Susan is also a student and teacher of yoga in Rhinebeck and Woodstock, New York. Raised in northeast Ohio, she spent most of her youth studying ecology and environmental issues, hiking and camping throughout the country, and following her parents through the woods and marshes on birdwatching excursions. Currently Susan lives with her husband, Sean Dague, in Poughkeepsie and spends her free time battling deer and squirrels to raise her own organic vegetable and flower gardens. |
Carlie Graves - Incoming ChairCarlie has been interested in food, cooking and gardening for more decades than she cares to count. She has traveled throughout France, Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg studying biodynamic and sustainable agriculture and sustainable marketing models and is a co-founder of the Poughkeepsie Farm Project. She is enjoying serving on the Board again after a hiatus of several years. Carlie makes her living inside, as in independent consultant and project manager in information technology, an occupation which changes constantly and which she hopes keeps her mind open and reasonably clear. She and her husband John McCleary have two boys, currently aged 17 and 20, and have resided in Poughkeepsie for a long time. Hobbies include cooking, reading everything and doing anything outside, especially hiking, gardening, walking the dog, and kayaking and sailing whenever there is an opportunity. |
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Cornelia HarrisCornelia (Lia) Harris has been an Ecology Educator at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies since 2006, working with teachers and students to learn about local ecology. Lia loves living 5 minutes from the Farm in a cute 1920s home in Poughkeepsie with her husband and two dogs. She has returned to Poughkeepsie where she got a degree from Vassar in Biology after spending some time away...first, teaching middle school science in Baltimore, MD with Teach for America, where she got an MA in Teaching from Johns Hopkins University, and then several years abroad teaching in Ecuador, Japan, Kenya and Germany. She is currently finishing an MS in Biodiversity, Conservation, and Policy from the State University of New York at Albany. She loves hiking and snow sports in the winter, gardening, watercolor painting, cooking, and eating amazing local food from the PFP! |
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Sophia HsiehSophia is a retired architect and former facilities manager for a NYC corporation. She is interested in Asian healing arts and alternative/complementary medicines and herbs. She is a certified Montessori early childhood educator and a former Policy Council Chair for Dutchess County's Head Start. She was also a founding member of the Town of Poughkeepsie Historic Preservation Commission. Her great adventures have been: Trekking in the Himalayas, snorkeling in the Great Barrier Reef, visiting the Forbidden City in Beijing, hot air ballooning on an African Safari, playing Pooh sticks in the Hundred Acre Wood, hunting for clues of the Holy Grail in Glastonbury, looking for Keltic relics in Ireland, having rice porridge breakfasts in Bangkok's Oriental Hotel, seeking narwals, musk ox and Puffins in the Arctic. She lives with her husband John Friel and teenage daughter Morgan Friel, who also enjoy adventuring. |
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Kristina Petersen-MigoyaKristina a native Oregonian, currently a part-time lecturing instructor at the The Culinary Institute of America where she teaches Baking Ingredients and Equipment Technology in the baking and pastry department. She was trained as an artisan baker (at the CIA as well), which has allowed Kristina to live and hone her skills in many urban centers throughout the US. In these areas, she noticed a lack of availability of fresh produce especially in the poorest neighborhoods, where fast food is rampant and cheap. This experience has helped to shape both her professional and personal values, where in her opinion individuals and families, regardless of income level should have access to fresh produce which is grown in a way that respects the land it is produced on, and is wholesome and safe. With a Bachelor’s Degree in History and Women’s Studies from the University of Oregon and an Associate’s Degree from the Culinary Institute of America, she brings her years of experience with food and education to the table. Kristina’s husband Francisco Migoya is a native of Mexico City, Mexico and an Associate Professor in Baking and Pastry Arts also at The Culinary Institute of America. He works closely with students at one of the restaurants on campus, The Apple Pie Bakery Café, where the use of seasonal produce and organic foods are some of the core values he instills in them. Needless to say their daughter Isabel who at the age of 6 is a great lover of food –“real food that is good for our bodies.” |
