CAFS Alumni Spotlight: Lauren Wustenberg JD/MFALP’21

A joint degree student in both the Juris Doctor and Master of Food and Agriculture Law and Policy (MFALP) programs, Lauren Wustenberg now serves as Counsel on the Majority Staff for the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry under Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-MI).

CAFS Alumni Spotlight: McKenna Hayes MFALP’16

One of the first students to enroll in the Master of Food and Agriculture Law and Policy degree at VLGS, McKenna Hayes MFALP’16 now directs the Food Hub at Food Connects, a nonprofit delivering local food, educational programs, and consulting services to the local Vermont food system.

Meet the 2022 CAFS Summer Honors Interns

This summer, six students from law schools around the country joined Vermont Law and Graduate School’s Center for Agriculture and Food Systems (CAFS) for the Summer Honors Internship program, which ran from May 31 to August 5.

Vermont Food Network, Paige Tomaselli ’04

August 13, 2016


VLS Alum Paige Tomaselli’s ’04 work for the Center for Food Safety has helped protect animals, the environment and public health, all while fighting “factory farms.”​​​​

Vermont Food Network, AMY HUYFFER ?00

August 9, 2016

As a first-year law student Huyffer aspired to be a principled small-town lawyer, instead, her days now begin with 4 a.m. milking, arranging ​logistics for a dairy business, and caring for her children—four boys, ages six to thirteen.​

Vermont Food Network, MICHAEL FORMICA ?98

August 7, 2016

While it’s become common in recent years to espouse the virtues of small, localized farming, Michael Formica isn’t one of the movement’s evangelists. ​”I’m ‘Big Bacon,’” he says, with a laugh.​