Claire Hope Cummings is an environmental journalist, lawyer, and author of Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds. Claire’s work focuses on how food and farming reconnects us to each other and the places where we live. She has farmed in California and in Vietnam, served on the boards and as an adviser to foundations, environmental, and farm organizations, co-founded The Cultural Conservancy, and was a 2001 Food and Society Policy Fellow.