 Janet E. Hawkes has extensive experience in horticulture, agriculture, agroforestry, and environmental sciences. Hawkes assisted in the development of RPM Ecosystems LLC, which grows and sells native trees, shrubs and grasses for restoration and conservation. From 1999 until 2005, Hawkes was Director of the Cornell Educational Resources Program in the Department of Education in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University and Principal Investigator on a variety of national and international agriculture and environmental programs funded with private and public funds. From 1995 until 1999, she served as the Executive Director of a regional environmental and agricultural education center. Prior to 1995, Hawkes was a Department Head at the University of the South Pacific in Alafua, Samoa. She also worked as a Cooperative Extension Agent, as a lecturer and teacher and has taught life and earth sciences, business, agriculture, and community development at the university, high school, and community levels. Hawkes has worked in international development and tropical agriculture in the South Pacific, Asia (India, Philippines, China), Africa, and the Caribbean. A consultant since 1986, she has worked with a wide array of businesses, organizations, agencies and governments on a variety of environmental and agricultural projects and programs. Hawkes has authored research and instructional resources on a variety of agricultural topics from energy and animal husbandry to tropical agroforestry and issues in sustainable agriculture. She currently serves on the Advisory Board for the United Nations Food and Agriculture �The Growing Connections� Program, as an advisor to EcoPort in South Africa, on the Cornell University Theory Center Advisory Board, on the Stone Barns Center for Sustainable Agriculture Board of Directors, and is past Chair of the Cayuga Lake Watershed Network, as well as other economic development, environmental, and agriculture boards and committees. Hawkes has a Doctorate in Agricultural Sciences, a Masters degree and teaching certification in Agriculture and Science Education, and a Bachelors of Science all from Cornell University.
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