Farm to Table Board and Staff
Board
Clark de Schweinitz, JD
Chair
Clark came to northern NM over 50 years ago, and after passing the NM Bar, began practicing with the non-profit legal assistance program Northern New Mexico Legal Services, representing low-income clients and community groups. He is retired after 36 years of practicing law and has continued his involvement in many of the issues that are dear to his heart, helping to found the NM Food & Agriculture Policy Council, of which he was the chair for many years. He has also been a long time board member Farm to Table. He lives in Espanola Valley.
Carlos Navarro
Member
Carlos is an anti-hunger activist and blogger. He volunteers as the convener for the Interfaith Hunger Coalition and as state coordinator for Bread for the World in New Mexico. He is retired from the University of New Mexico, where he worked as editor for the Latin America Digital Beat, an online news site of Latin American affairs. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications/Journalism and a Master of Business Administration degree in International Trade.
Anthony Wagner
Secretary
Anthony is a fourth generation farmer whose family has been growing fruits and vegetables in Corrales and Socorro for over 100 years. He has been working with Farm to Table since 2010 to bring New Mexico grown produce into the schools, an initiative that now includes senior centers and early childhood education programs throughout the state. School children eagerly await his watermelons each year. His family farm is a central part of the community in Corrales, hosting annual events such as a corn maze, pick your own produce, and festivals, as well as selling produce at their farm stand and serving up hospitality at their cafe. Anthony is retired from working at Sandia Labs and has been part of the NM Food & Agriculture Policy Council for many years. He serves on the Governing Committee for the Policy Council as well as being a long time member of the Farm to Table board.
Susan Wilger
Member
Susan is passionate about working to promote public health, policy and equity through community engagement. Working in the non-profit sector for over 35 years, her expertise includes organizational systems, public policy, resource development and program management. Susan has served on numerous local, state and national boards, advisory committees and policy committees. She currently serves as Past Chair of the New Mexico Food & Agriculture Policy Council. In 2021, Susan received the NM Public Health Association Larrazolo Lifetime Achievement Award. Susan has a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin and a Master’s degree in public affairs from the University of Texas.
Staff
Pam Roy
Executive Director & Policy Director
Pam was born and raised in Santa Fe. She has spent a lifetime focused on community initiatives, and food and agriculture issues. Pam is the Executive Director of Farm to Table, a New Mexico organization working on regional food and farm systems initiatives; farm to school and senior centers; and which focuses on local, state, tribal and national policy. She coordinates the New Mexico Food & Agriculture Policy Council, Santa Fe City and County Food Policy Council, serves as the Rocky Mountain Farmers Union Government Relations for New Mexico, is a partner of the NM Grown Coalition and the Office of the Governor’s Food Initiative. She helped to start “farm to school” in New Mexico as part of Farm to Table’s mission in 2001 and was an originating partner of the National Farm to School Network. She recently served on the Board of National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition. Pam has a Masters degree in International Agriculture and has worked on food, agriculture and policy initiatives in other countries over the years.
Maya Martinez
Farmer Innovation Program Director
Maya has worked in local government for over 27 years. In this capacity, she oversaw department budgets, contract development and management, and Water Conservation Programs. Maya received her Degree in Political Science from New Mexico Highlands University. She is from Santa Fe and has twin teenage daughters. Maya has been involved in fundraising events, school organizations, sports booster groups, parent /teacher groups and volunteering with and in her children’s schools, activities and sports. Maya enjoys spending time with her daughters and family at their lake house, attending her daughters’ sporting events, local sporting events, and participating in her church community.
Edith Martinez
Farmer Innovation Program Administrator and Policy Associate
Edith has worked in local and state government for over 25 years. She has overseen department budgets, grant programs, human resources and youth programming. She also coached junior high and high school volleyball in Santa Fe for over 10 years. One of her passions has been to help those who are underserved by providing the daily essentials to the youth and their families in her community. Edith loves the outdoors to include fishing and camping with her family. She has assisted United Way in their grant selection process and continues to assist local non-profits with her husband and family.
Helen Henry
Design and Systems Support
Helen has spent many years working with artists and communities – doing on-air programming for WXPN-FM in Philadelphia, as the Program Director for the Folklife Center of International House, and as the Program Associate for Marketing and Artist Services at Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour, a statewide grant-making program supporting touring for Pennsylvania based performing artists. After moving to New Mexico, she helped manage grants and scholarships at the New Mexico Community Foundation. In 2011 she started doing administrative work and communications for Farm to Table, and also worked in the same capacity with the NM Alliance of Health Councils. Food, farming and community are dear to her heart, and she helps to manage the Milagro Community Garden. She has a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Design from the Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts).
Kierstan Pickens
Communications & Development Support
Kierstan is a grant writer and nonprofit professional with two decades experience in many facets of management, events, and fundraising. For the last decade, she’s applied these skills to building local food systems. Prior to contracting with a few beloved clients, (Farm to Table included) she was most recently the Executive Director of the Santa Fe Farmers’ Market Institute. Born and raised in the northern plains of Colorado, Kierstan learned early the value of localism from her father, who owned a small welding business. She moved to New Mexico in 1998 to attend college, fell in love with the desert southwest, and never left. Since then, she has applied her passion for local food and the environment through professional and personal pursuits. When she’s not working to dismantle the industrialized food system, she volunteers as a Santa Fe River steward, grows vegetables with her neighbors in a geodesic dome, and gets outside as much as possible.
Nelsy Dominguez
Special Projects
Nelsy leads c3 Perspectives Consulting, LLC and is a consultant to philanthropic and nonprofit organizations where she applies her many years of organizational, grantmaking, leadership, programmatic, and equity experience to expand the potential of the sector’s impact and capacity. Nelsy’s experience as Program Director at two statewide foundations, the Con Alma Health Foundation and the New Mexico [Community] Foundation, expands over twenty-years. Her knowledge of the 501(c)3 non-profit sector also includes having been Deputy Director and COO of Farm to Table. Throughout her career, Nelsy has been committed to equity, nonprofit organizational and leadership development, and to improving the quality of life and economic opportunity of historically underinvested populations. She serves on the Board of Directors of Groundworks New Mexico and is an advisor to the Envision Fund of the Santa Fe Community Foundation, Santa Fe Data Platform, the HEAL and SAFER Funds of the New Mexico Foundation, and the New Mexico Food & Agriculture Policy Council. She received her bachelor’s degree in Iberian and Latin American Cultural History & Literature and Political Science as well as earned a Paralegal Studies certification from Montclair University. She has a Master of Social Work from the New Mexico Highlands University.
Yana Merril
Accounting
Yana has worked for non-profits since 1988 and has a consulting business focusing on non-profit accounting. She was on staff at the New Mexico Environmental Law Center as their Director of Administration & Finance and has also been the Financial Director at NMCF and LightHawk. She has worked with Farm to Table as a consultant since its inception.
Photo of Anthony Wagner: Seth Roffman
Photo of Helen Henry: Edith Martinez
Photo of Maya Martinez: Anonymous
Photo of Kierstan Pickens: Kierstan Pickens
All other photos: Helen Henry
