Dr. Cynthia Daley

Dr. Cynthia Daley is a professor within the College of Agriculture at California State University Chico and currently serves as the Rawlins Endowed Professor for Environmental Literacy, and the Director for the Center for Regenerative Agriculture & Resilient Systems. Cindy is originally from Illinois, where her family has been actively engaged in the farming profession for more than four generations. She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Illinois, her doctorate at University of California Davis.

She joined the College of Agriculture faculty in 1997 and founded the Organic Dairy Education & Research Program in 2006. Seeing the need to grow the ecological farming movement, she went on to co-create the Regenerative Agriculture Initiative in 2016 and guided this program to Center status in May of 2019. The Center for Regenerative Agriculture & Resilient Systems is a consortium of interdisciplinary faculty and farmers who recognize the ecological benefits of regenerative farming practices including water conservation, soil fertility, and carbon sequestration. The Center's guiding principle is that agriculture, done regeneratively, can be the solution to soil degradation and climate change.

Cindy sits on the Board of Directors of the Western Organic Dairy Producers Alliance, the Scientific Advisory Board of The Organic Center, and the Science & Technical Advisory Council of The California Climate & Agriculture Network. She is a Certified Educator for Holistic Management through the Savory Institute.