Vanessa was born in Boston, MA and grew up in Tucson, AZ. She currently administers lease agreements for livestock grazing and farming on Pima County-owned properties in southern AZ, and formerly worked for the U.S. Forest Service in Payson, AZ. She completed a Master of Range Science degree at NMSU, and Instituto Nacional de Technologia Agropecuaria in Argentina. She also worked on four different grassfed livestock ranches intermittently throughout her career in the Southwestern U.S.
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