Project Description

Staff Attorney with the Center for Agriculture and Food Systems (CAFS) at Vermont Law and Graduate School.

Wendy W. Chen: Wendy is a staff attorney with the Center for Agriculture and Food Systems (CAFS) at Vermont Law and Graduate School, where she oversees the Farmers Market Legal Toolkit. Before joining CAFS, she spent seven months working on a small, diversified farm in Western Massachusetts. For more than a decade, Wendy practiced employment law in Seattle. After relocating to Vermont, she investigated wage and hour claims and decided unemployment and worker misclassification claims as an administrative law judge for the Vermont Department of Labor. Wendy also currently serves as vice chair of the board of Food Connects, a nonprofit organization that operates a food hub and farm to school program in Southeastern Vermont.