Alexis Baden-Mayer is a Washington-based lawyer and activist serving as

the Political Director of the Organic Consumers Organization and its

Fund. She is the co-editor with the Organic Consumers Organization’s

director Ronnie Cummins of its newsletter Organic Bytes, which reaches

nearly 300,000 subscribers. Alexis has organized many grassroots

campaigns, including Millions Against Monsanto, Coming Clean (to remove

false “organic” claims from cosmetics), Safeguard Organic Standards (to

keep USDA organic standards high), USDA Watch (to close the revolving

door between federal regulatory agencies and the biotech lobby), and

Organic Transitions (to shift from climate-destabilizing industrial food

production to carbon-sequestering sustainable agriculture).  Before

joining OCA, Alexis was the Government Relations Director for Vote Hemp,

the National Field Director for the Marijuana Policy Project, and a

lobbyist for a coalition to restore federal loan access to students with

drug convictions.  Her organization’s main website is

OrganicConsumers.org