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Kristi Boswell focuses her regulatory and policy practice on advising farm and food clients on issues that impact food production, manufacturing, and retail sale. This includes compliance with organic standards, workforce needs, immigration, farm safety net programs, risk management, conservation, rural development, and food and nutrition programs. Whether advising farmers, trade associations, cooperatives, food processors or grocers, Kristi’s enterprise-wide USDA experience gives her the unique ability to effectively provide regulatory compliance counsel and identify opportunities to actively engage policy makers for regulatory or legislative improvements with an eye for agency process.

Before joining Alston & Bird, Kristi served as a senior advisor to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, where she implemented the secretary’s priorities and advised the secretary on decision-making. She was active in implementation of the 2018 Farm Bill and pandemic response using Commodity Credit Corporation authority. Kristi also held a policy role at the White House, where she served as the agricultural voice in drafting H-2A regulatory reforms and immigration legislation. Before her time in government, she served as the director of congressional relations at an agricultural trade association, where she advocated Congress for legislative change for farm members.

Retired

Retired 

Previously worked at Orton Management.  Before that worked with the Upper Big Blue NRD