Panel VI - Know Your Farm Bill

Emma Scott

Clinical Instructor

Harvard Law School - Food Law & Policy Clinic

Emma Scott is a Clinical Instructor with the HLS Food Law and Policy Clinic (FLPC) and a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. At FLPC, Emma primarily leads the Clinic’s Sustainable and Equitable Food Production Initiative, including FLPC’s advocacy on farm bill policy, food system workers, and equity in USDA programs. She also coordinates the activities of the Farm Bill Law Enterprise (FBLE), a coalition of law school programs that publishes educational resources and recommendations to improve farm bill programs and policy to better meet the long-term needs of our society (check out our work on farmbilllaw.org). Prior to joining FLPC, Emma served as an Attorney-Fellow at California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation in the Labor and Civil Rights Litigation Unit (supported by Justice Catalyst). At CRLAF, Emma’s practice focused on group representation of workers from immigrant communities in employment litigation, with an emphasis on farmworkers and the H-2A visa program. Before that, Emma clerked on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California for the Hon. John A. Mendez.

Lee Miller

Lecturing Fellow

Duke University School of Law

Lee Miller is a lecturing fellow teaching Food, Agriculture and the Environment: Law and Policy and a fellow in environmental law in the Environmental Law and Policy Clinic at Duke Law. His work has primarily focused on subnational climate change mitigation and resilience; adoption of regenerative agriculture systems; concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), environmental justice and animal welfare; the federal farm bill; development of local and regional food systems; as well as food justice, food sovereignty and the right to food; open markets and fair competition; and economic justice for restaurant workers.

Most recently, at the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic he developed and coordinated a farm bill research project to advance agricultural sustainability, racial and economic justice, and rural resilience. The project spanned eight environmental, food, and public health clinics across the law schools at Harvard, Yale, Duke, UCLA, Pace and Vermont. Previously, at Yale Law School’s Environmental Law Clinic, Miller spearheaded a nationwide CAFO survey for the Natural Resources Defense Council that exposed information asymmetries between regulatory authorities and industry.

Miller has published pieces in the Yale Law Journal Forum, the American Journal of Public Health, the Journal of Food Law and Policy, and the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law, among others. He has co-authored numerous reports on the farm bill, CAFOs, and regenerative agriculture. Miller serves as faculty advisor for the Duke Food Law Society and on the Board of Advisors for the national Food Law Student Network.

Miller received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he co-founded the Yale Food Law Society. He was awarded the post-graduate Jane Matilda Bolin Yale Law Journal Public Interest Fellowship and was an inaugural Exchange Fellow at the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture in Pocantico Hills, NY. He received his B.S. summa cum laude from Duke, where he also received his MEM. He and his spouse raise sheep, bees, and vegetables on their small farm outside of Hillsborough.

Jonathan Iwaskiw

Manager

Feeding America

Jonathan has served as Manager of Legislative Affairs at Feeding America since 2022. In this position, Jonathan advances Feeding America’s legislative priorities in Congress to strengthen federal nutrition programs like SNAP, TEFAP, child nutrition programs, and CSFP. Jonathan is passionate about garnering bipartisan and cross-industry support for increased public investment in federal anti-hunger programs. Prior to working at Feeding America, Jonathan served four years as a legislative staffer for Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) where he focused on food and agriculture issues. Jonathan is a native of Ellicott City, Maryland and a lifelong Baltimore sports fan. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 2016, obtaining a B.A. in Foreign Affairs.

Kelli Case

Senior Staff Attorney

Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative at the University of Arkansas

Kelli Case, Citizen of the Chickasaw Nation, serves as Senior Staff Attorney for the Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative at the University of Arkansas (IFAI). Prior to joining the IFAI, Kelli earned her B.S. in Agribusiness from Oklahoma State University and her J.D. from the University of Tulsa. Since joining IFAI, Kelli has traveled across Indian Country, working with Tribes and Tribal producers on their agricultural pursuits. In the last two years, her work has focused heavily on the Farm Bill and its impact in Indian Country.  

Dãnia Davy

Director of Land Retention and Advocacy

Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund

Dãnia serves as Director of Land Retention and Advocacy at the Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund the largest and oldest cooperatively-owned organization whose membership includes black farmers, landowners and cooperatives. After double concentrating in Community Health and Africana Studies at Brown University, she earned her J.D. at University of Virginia School of Law.  

Dãnia began her legal career as a Skadden Fellow at the North Carolina Association of Black Lawyers’ Land Loss Prevention Project ÔÇïimplementing a project she designed ÔÇïwhich provided community education and estate planning services to improve Black farmers and heir property landowners' access to legal services in the rural South. ÔÇïShe developed the documentary - "Our Land, Our Lives: The North Carolina Black Farmers' Experience" and served on the inaugural North Carolina Sustainable Local Food Advisory Council.

Dãnia is also the Director of the Federation’s Regional Heirs Property & Mediation Center, manages the State Agricultural Mediation Programs in Florida, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Georgia, and Louisiana, leads the Heir Property Relending Program Technical Assistance and Outreach Project, hosts the Federation Conversation Podcast, supervises the Federation Fellowship and Summer Law Student Internship, and leads the Federation’s Advocacy Institute. Dãnia currently serves on the boards of the Farmers Legal Action Group and Southern Rural Development Center.