Karen Ross
Karen Ross is the Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, having been appointed to that post by Governor Jerry Brown on January 12, 2011. She had previously served as Chief of Staff to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, a position she accepted in 2009. From 1996 to 2009, she was president of the California Association of Winegrape Growers (CAWG). She is a graduate of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and the Nebraska Agricultural Leadership Program.Her prior experience includes ten years as an advocate for agricultural and rural electric cooperatives at the state and national level, both in California and her native state of Nebraska, and serving as a staff member for then-United States Senator Edward Zorinsky of Nebraska from 1978 to 1985, and working on several U.S. Senate and presidential campaigns.
A major leader in California's agricultural community, she was born and reared on a family farm in western Nebraska which she and her husband co-own with her brother where her family still raises grain crops and cattle.
In her capacity as the secretary of CDFA, Ross was the defendant of the Supreme Court case National Pork Producers Council v. Ross, in which the US Supreme Court upheld the legality of 2018 California Proposition 12, which set standards for the confinement of pigs and other farm animals which produce the animal products sold in California. Provided by Wikipedia
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Gendered media : women, men, and identity politics / Karen Ross. by Ross, Karen, 1957-
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Women, politics, media : uneasy relations in comparative perspective / Karen Ross. by Ross, Karen, 1957-
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Gendered media : women, men, and identity politics / Karen Ross. by Ross, Karen, 1957-
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Media and audiences : new perspectives / Karen Ross and Virginia Nightingale. by Ross, Karen, 1957-
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Gender, politics, news : a game of three sides / Karen Ross. by Ross, Karen, 1957-
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The media and the public : "them" and "us" in media discourse / Stephen Coleman and Karen Ross. by Coleman, Stephen, 1957-
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The handbook of gender, sex, and media / edited by Karen Ross.
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Women & media : a critical introduction / Carolyn M. Byerly and Karen Ross. by Byerly, Carolyn M.
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Black marks : minority ethnic audiences and media / edited by Karen Ross with Peter Playdon.
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Women and media : international perspectives / edited by Karen Ross and Carolyn M. Byerly.
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Gender and newsroom cultures : identities at work / edited by Marjan de Bruin, Karen Ross.
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Popular media and communication : essays on publics, practices, and processes / edited by Karen Ross and Stuart Price.
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