Cooper Freeman, Program Manager at the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center (OAEC), studied Environmental History at UC Santa Barbara, Agro-ecology with Vandana Shiva in India, and Permaculture Design at OAEC. His recent projects include co-leading the passage of a California law legalizing seed exchanges, working with the largest peasant movement in Haiti on seed sovereignty, and leading the Evolutionary Wheat Breeding Project at OAEC.