Kathleen Merrigan

Age: 50
Occupation: Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Merrigan brings an unusually green viewpoint to the USDA, better known as a bastion of mainstream industrial farming. The former director of the agriculture, food and environment program at Tufts University, as a congressional staffer in 1990 she helped write the Organic Food Production Act. She remains a champion of sustainable farming.

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