Vineyard Team

Associate Vice President, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Retired UCCE Farn Advisor, Lake and Mendocino Counties

USDA ARS Davis, CA

UC Davis

Director - California Dept of Pesticide Regulation

Marrone Bioinnovations

CEO, Tule Technologies

Angelina Ceja is the Director of Education at AgSafe, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide practical health and safety education to the agricultural community. She oversees and develops curriculum for the various certificate and education programs provided by AgSafe. She has over 20 years of nonprofit experience, is bilingual in Spanish, and earned her Master’s Degree in Public Administration from California State University, Stanislaus.

President, Advanced Viticulture

USDA ARS Davis, CA

Ohmart Consulting Services

Dr. Monica Cooper joined UC Cooperative Extension (UCCE) in Napa County as a Farm Advisor (Viticulture) in April 2009. Her formative work in the Peace Corps and her graduate degree program led her to a career in UCCE, at the intersection of her passions for science, plants and public service. Educated as a Plant Doctor at the University of Florida, she has multidisciplinary training in plant pathology, entomology, soils, and plant science that she draws upon to help growers diagnose vineyard problems. Her applied research and outreach programs provide data-driven technical information to the vineyard industry. Her research interests include disease epidemiology, pest management, labor issues affecting farmworkers and optimizing extension delivery through peer-learning networks. Fluent in Spanish, she also offers educational programming to farmworkers. Her achievements have been recognized with the ASEV Extension Distinction Award (2019), the 9th International IPM Award of Recognition (2018), the Vintage Report Innovation Award (2016) and the UC ANR Distinguished Service Award for Outstanding Team (2015/2016). She has co-authored 54 peer-reviewed publications, 120 extension publications, delivered 85 educational presentations and organizes an average of 20 outreach events per year. An active member of ASEV, she serves as an associate editor of the Society’s journals. An avid horticulturalist, she cultivates edibles, flowers and habitat plants in her home garden.

UCCE Farm Advisor Monterey County

Viticulturist, VinoFarms

Technical Field Manager, Suterra

Professor, Plant Pathology and Microbiology Division - Cornell University

Extension Associate, Dept. of Entomology - Penn State University

Professor, Ecology of Plant-Associated Microorganisms - UC Berkeley

Associate Specialist UC Davis

Zihao Wang is an associate lecturer at The University of Sydney, researching Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in the School of Aerospace, Mechanical, and Mechatronic Engineering. He completed a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours Class 1) in 2014, and then a Ph.D. in Intelligent UAVs for Pest Bird Control in Vineyards in 2021. He is interested in autonomous systems and their applications. His current focus is to develop an autonomous UAV system for bird damage management in agriculture.

Climate Research Fellow, School of Technology, Environments and Design - University of Tasmania, Hobart Tasmania

Cooperative Extension Specialist - UC Berkeley

Katherine Bedard enjoys removing barriers for the approximately $1.4 billion of California wine exports. Based in California (USA) Wine Institute’s Washington, D.C. office, she works with Wine Institute members and staff, the U.S. government, international industry organizations, and foreign governments to respond to international barriers and advance the U.S. wine trade agenda. Most recently, Katherine served as an International Trade Specialist in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service, focusing on eliminating trade barriers for processed agricultural products, including U.S. wine.

UC Cooperative Extension Advisor - Entomology and Biologicals, San Luis Obispo, CA

Sustainable Winegrowing and Grower Education Director - Lodi Winegape Commission

Assistant Profressor Dept. of Land, Air and Water Resources - UC Davis

President - National Grape Research Alliance

Professor, Dept. of Enology and Viticulture - UC Davis

Chair, Department of Viticulture & Enology. California State University, Fresno

Lecturer College of Agriculture, Food, and Environmental Sciences - California Polytechnic University San Luis Obispo