Jess Guffey Calkins

Jess Guffey Calkins is the Community Food Systems Educator at UW-Madison Extension Dane County. She staffs the Dane County Food Council and also works closely with Extension educators, the Gardens Network, and other food-related organizations to build partnerships, advance policy, inform programming, coordinate events, and strengthen the Dane County food system. Jess’s background includes coordinating school and community garden organizing, training garden leaders, designing garden education and food systems curricula, and coordinating civic leadership programming for older youth.