{"id":2258,"date":"2018-08-29T08:57:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T08:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farmforward1.wpengine.com\/?p=2258"},"modified":"2022-11-04T21:07:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T21:07:01","slug":"exciting-changes-in-farm-forwards-leadership-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/news\/exciting-changes-in-farm-forwards-leadership-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Exciting Changes in Farm Forward&#8217;s Leadership Team"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<section class=\"normal_content bg-white padding-top-small padding-bottom-large\" style=\"\">\n\t\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"row center-md\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-md-7\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"content-styled\"><p>Almost eleven years ago, Aaron Gross and I started Farm Forward to create space for a new kind of advocacy to support farmed animals and fight the injustice of factory farming. As the founding Executive Director (ED) of Farm Forward, I\u2019m incredibly proud of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/who-we-are\/annual-reports\/\">all that we\u2019ve accomplished<\/a>\u00a0and I can\u2019t wait to see what we can do in the decade to come.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Farm Forward has grown from just a single full-time employee (me) to a staff of eleven, plus five other advisors and fellows. Now that Farm Forward has an all-star team of talented professionals who can run our day-to-day operations, I have the opportunity to move away from administration into a new role that has been Aaron\u2019s and my dream all along, where I can spend more of my time improving the lives of farmed animals.\u00a0<strong>I\u2019m excited to announce that, at my initiative and effective immediately, I am stepping down as ED and Farm Forward\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/who-we-are\/team\/\">Andrew deCoriolis<\/a>\u00a0will be taking over my former role<\/strong>.\u00a0I will shift into a new role, Senior Strategist, and will remain part of FF\u2019s leadership team, full-time, for many years to come.<\/p>\n<p>This shift marks the beginning of the next phase of Farm Forward, and with Andrew\u2019s leadership <strong>I\u2019m confident that\u00a0the next few years will be our most impactful yet<\/strong>. In his five years with Farm Forward, Andrew has shown exemplary leadership, judgment, and skill, and has earned the respect and trust of our team and board of directors. We\u2019ve spent months planning this leadership transition and there\u2019s no doubt in my mind that with Andrew as ED, Farm Forward is in the best possible position to continue to succeed and grow.<\/p>\n<p>In my new role as Senior Strategist, I will continue to oversee and shape our strategic vision and help implement our most sensitive programs. I will also have significantly more time to connect with you\u2014our closest allies\u2014to explore ways we can deepen our work together to make\u00a0<strong>even more progress<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Watch for an upcoming blog post from Andrew in which he\u2019ll share a bit about himself, his goals, and his vision for the future of Farm Forward.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for making all of this possible.<\/p>\n<p>Very best,<\/p>\n<p>Ben Goldsmith<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founding Executive Director Ben Goldsmith remarks on his shift to Senior Strategist and introduces Andrew deCoriolis as Farm Forward&#8217;s new ED. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}