Meet Dottie Arnold, MS, FCSA

USFA Operations Manager

Dottie Arnold, MS, FCSA, has an extensive background in food systems, project management, education, agriculture, and public health. She most recently managed USFA’s 4.4 million 3-Year Cooperative Agreement Project. She has also worked for the States of Colorado and Massachusetts, coordinating various projects, events, and quality improvement efforts in those states. Through these administrative roles, she gained significant experience managing grant budgets and financials and writing technical grant reports.

Before her administrative career, she built her work ethic through formal farming training, farm education, and years as a production farmer. She has worked as a farm manager and vegetable production farmworker in Colorado, Massachusetts, and the UK, and as a farm educator in Massachusetts and California. She earned her MS from the University of Edinburgh, her BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and her Farmer Certification in Sustainable Agriculture (FCSA) from The Learn to Farm program at the Farm School. Outside of work, she loves spending time with her family and animals in the mountains, fishing, crafting, cooking, and all things gardening.