Dan Hobbs is the lead cooperative development specialist with the Rocky Mountain Farmers Union Cooperative and Economic Development Center. He has over twenty years agricultural and rural development experience in the United States and South America and formerly served as executive director of Organic Seed Alliance, NewFarms and Nuestras Raices, all 501(c)(3) organizations. Dan is a fifth generation Coloradan, holds a B.A. in Latin American Studies and owns and operates a 43 acres of diversified certified organic crops with his wife, Nanna Meyer, in Pueblo County, Colorado.