Policy & Leadership Development Conference 2018

Elizabeth Stulberg
Science Policy Manager
Alliance of Crop, Soil, and Environmental Science Societies (ACSESS)


Dr. Elizabeth Stulberg is a Science Policy Manager at the Alliance of Crop, Soil, and Environmental Science Societies (ACSESS), which represents three scientific societies, the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America. The ACSESS DC-based policy office tracks federal actions in agriculture and environmental sciences, provides our membership with action items and updates, and serves as a scientific resource for Congress. Dr. Stulberg specializes in food systems policy with particular interest in microbiomes and microbiology, agriculture education, diversity and inclusion, and the public perception of agriculture. She serves as a scientist liaison between government and academia, utilizing science to achieve policy objectives and translating federal policy to the academic community. Prior to joining ACSESS, Elizabeth worked as an Agriculture Science Fellow in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Office of the Chief Scientist, and she also spent two years in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy as the Senior Advisor for Food and Life Sciences, in part with a fellowship from the American Phytopathological Society’s Public Policy Board. She began her science policy career as a legislative assistant in the U.S. House of Representatives with Congresswoman Louise Slaughter (D-NY) through an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science & Technology Policy Congressional Fellowship sponsored by the American Society for Microbiology, where she cut her chops on food policy issues like antimicrobial resistance and food safety. Elizabeth received her Ph.D. from Yale University for her research on the interactions among plants, soil, and microbes and on the biochemistry of natural products.

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