Emily uses her quantitative research and modeling background to identify the cutting-edge trends and solutions around climate mitigation in agriculture and aquaculture. Robust measurement of impacts is the foundation of effective mitigation. At WWF, her work has included research on greenhouse gas impacts of commodities ranging from coffee to tuna to beef, and strategic efforts to choose appropriate measurement and accounting tools with industry groups. Emily received her PhD in biological oceanography from the Joint Program between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. She has researched topics ranging from the ecological and economic impacts of climate change on fisheries to marine metacommunity studies, image processing algorithms for phytoplankton, and environmental risk analysis.

Patrick Brown, an American Entrepreneur, Born in 1982 in Henderson, NC. During Patrick’s adolescent years he grew up on his family farm as the 4th generation heir learning to cultivate Tobacco, Soybean and Wheat alongside his father the late Rev. Dr. Arthur A. Brown. Currently farming on land that his family has owned for generations in a small community called Hecks Grove in southeastern Warren County, North Carolina. “The farm was established by my great grandfather, Byron C. Brown in the late1800’s.” Byron was born at the Oakley Grove Plantation in Northeast Warren County, NC in the community called Littleton. Byron and his mother Lucinda Fain were both born into slavery and owned by his father Jacob Falcon-Browne and Jacobs mother Mary Ann Falcon-Browne. Jacob and Bryon’s Mother Lucinda had a total of 7 children. Whom all left the plantation at the end of the civil war in 1865. Patrick recounts. “While sharecropping my great grandfather became a first-generation farmer who later owned a business, grew commodity crops, timber and raised livestock until he died in 1931. My grandfather, Grover Brown, was a second-generation farmer who inherited his father’s businesses and farmed. He established a peach orchard in 1935, while cultivating grain and raising livestock up until his death in the 1978. My father, Rev. Dr. Arthur A. Brown, was the third-generation farmer “who taught me everything that I know about farming;” especially in food sovereignty and learning to live off the land he continued raising livestock, and grew vegetables, grain, and tobacco up until his retirement in 2003.//.