Bio: Rebecca Wasserman-Olin is a Ph.D. student in Agriculture and Resource Economics at Colorado State University and the incoming AAEA-GSS Chair-elect for 2024-2025. Her dissertation examines the tradeoffs in supply chains from regional food purchasing policies by public institutions. She holds a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an M.S. from Cornell University, where she studied consumer habits regarding local produce. Rebecca has worked as a community organizer and economic researcher in Minnesota, aiding farmers in integrating conservation into their practices, and as a researcher at Cornell, supporting New York’s regional food systems.