Paul Ross currently leads the AgrAbility program at Mandy’s Farm, overseeing our apprenticeship and farming business incubation programs. Paul has a Bachelor of Arts in sustainable development from Columbia University. He has four years’ experience working with people with a wide variety of disabilities in adaptive recreation and wilderness travel. He began farming while working toward his masters degree in landscape architecture at the University of New Mexico. He has worked with small scale agricultural systems including both acequia irrigation and drip irrigation, growing diverse vegetables and native wild seeds for restoration work in the southwest. He graduated with his masters degree in 2020, earning the department thesis award for his final project and is a member of the Tau Sigma Delta honors society. He also serves on the board of the Albuquerque Wildlife Federation and is a member of both the Growing Health and Justice Coalition and the National Young Farmers Coalition.