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Beth Rota

Beth Rota is the Organic Program Director at Quality Certification Services (QCS), serving as the technical lead for QCS’ certification teams in the US and Latin America.  With more than 15 years of experience in certification, Beth’s expertise includes policy, compliance and accreditation across multiple organic standards and all scopes of production and handling.  She values the organic industry’s diversity, sustainability, and integrity and enjoys the opportunity to engage and collaborate with colleagues and organic producers.  Beth holds a MS in Environmental Studies from the University of Montana and BS in International and Environmental Politics from Juniata College.  Beth lives in wild and wonderful West Virginia, where she enjoys spending free time in her garden and exploring the outdoors with family and friends.


Carley Jordana

Carley is from St. Augustine, Florida where she grew up the youngest of 7 kids. She first became interested in agriculture in high school while studying abroad in Quevedo, Ecuador where she lived in an agricultural region of the country and met many local farmers. Carley attended the University of Florida for undergraduate where she majored in Sustainability Studies and pursued minors in Organic and Sustainable Crop Production and Spanish Language. She later went on to pursue her masters at UF in Horticultural Sciences where she researched the effects of grafting on mini watermelon fruit quality and yield in an organic system. In her personal life, Carley loves to read, travel, cook, and tending to her plants.


Chintamani Andujar

Chin earned her A.S. in Medical Office Administration from City College in Gainesville, where she went on to work in the medical field for 6 years. She has a passion for horses and grew up with plenty of them. She grew up planting fruit trees and growing her own vegetables for consumption. Chin started working for QCS in November of 2021. In her free time, she likes riding, bogging, and going swimming.


Chloe Mullvain

Chloe was born and raised on the coast of Northern California and received her B.A. in Linguistics from the University of California, Davis. After a move to the Puget Sound region of Washington State, she earned two certificates in Organic Agriculture and Horticulture from Washington State University. Chloe spent three years working on a diversified vegetable, flower, poultry, and pig farm before joining QCS. In her free time, she manages her own farm property and attends a small Farmer’s Market on the weekends. She is also a fiber arts enthusiast and keeps a herd of angora rabbits for wool, which she uses to spin yarn, knit, and crochet.


Chloe Smith

Chloe grew up in a small farming community along the Rio Grande, outside of Albuquerque, New Mexico. She earned her B.S. in Environmental Studies with a concentration in Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry from Warren Wilson College. She has worked for the last decade as a farmer producing mixed vegetables, mushrooms, and occasionally raising chicken and pigs. In her free time, Chloe loves to spend time in the garden, and generally spending time outside hiking, and camping or swimming.


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