Student Organizations

Denise O'Brien is a full-time organic farmer from Atlantic, Iowa. A former president of the National Family Farm Coalition and Democratic nominee for Iowa's Secretary of Agriculture in 2006, she won the Ms.Foundation's Gloria Steinem award (recognizing commitment and achievement in social justice) and has addressed the UN General Assembly on behalf of the world's farmers. She currently coordinates the Women, Food, and Agriculture Network, an association of farm women who speak for and organize around the needs of women in agriculture.