Scott Marlow Email & Phone Number

Washington, DC, US

Washington, United States

In my role as a Senior Policy Advisor at USDA Farm Service Agency, I have been the point person for FSA disaster recovery efforts post-2024 hurricanes. I oversaw the implementation of IRA Section 22006, providing $2.9B in direct assistance for at-risk farms and creating 21 mechanisms for assistance dissemination from scratch. This program received clean.

Washington, DC

Oversaw the implementation of over $17B in farmer payments, including disaster, conservation and commodity programs.Developed and implemented innovative disaster relief programs to increase efficiency of assistance delivery, and to provide assistance for entrepreneurial farmers who sell products at enhanced prices in the Emergency Relief Program (ERP).

North Carolina, United States

Pittsboro, NC

• Directed the distillation of the experience of individual farm families in RAFI’s farm crisis and entrepreneurship programs into educational resources and policy initiatives at the legislative, administrative.
• Through coalitions, successfully sought changes to federal credit, risk management, and disaster assistance programs in the 2019 Farm Bill to target federal lending programs to those in the most need, increase.
• Developed and delivered educational programs for farm families on farm financial management, disaster assistance programs, farm enterprise planning, and the development of resilient enterprises.
• Developed and delivered educational programs for non-government organizations and agencies across 10 states on disaster response and working with farm and rural families in disaster recovery.
• Chaired RAFI’s policy team, and directed RAFI’s participation in the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, The National Family Farm Coalition, the Conservation and Crop Insurance Task Force of the Agree.
• Developed a model for a participatory research, “citizen science” approach to policy development and program evaluation.

Pittsboro, NC

• Oversaw development and management of a $1.7M annual budget.
• Oversaw the organization’s programs and administration to ensure consistency with RAFI’s mission and high standards of financial and organizational management.
• Managed a staff of 12-16, including recruitment and training of new staff.
• Managed Board of Directors relations, and Board establishment of policies on equitable pay structures, financial management and recruitment of new board members.
• Established new programs on farm-scale pollinator habitat establishment, technical assistance for cooperative marketing associations, market-based solutions to food insecurity including the use of SNAP EBT benefits at.

Pittsboro, NC

• Oversaw RAFI’s Farm Crisis Hotline, and served as the first point of contact for hotline callers.
• Directed the development of educational and policy initiatives based on the experience of individual farm families served by the hotline.
• Implemented disaster response initiatives following hurricanes, droughts and floods, either direct to individuals or through partner organizations.
• Co-directed Farm Advocate Link with Farm Aid to provide training and networking of programs that provide in-depth crisis response to farm families across the country.
• Developed policy campaigns from direct service experience with and through coalitions that helped create the USDA Microloan Program, Whole Farm Revenue Crop Insurance, extend crop insurance price selections to organic.
• Developed and Directed a successful policy initiative to include landowner rights protections in NC mineral rights leasing legislation and DENR reports on hydraulic fracturing in NC.

Pittsboro, NC

• Created and managed farmer-focused network to develop and implement reduced-pesticide peanut and cotton production, including a farmer-to-farmer technical assistance program, on-farm trials, and peer information.
• Developed practices that reduced the application of pesticides by over 150,000 pounds of active ingredient with high long-term adoption rates.

Master Of Science (Ms), Crop Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Political Science