Sacramento UCCE Staff and Faculty

Sacramento County Staff/Faculty

Photo of Marianne Bird Marianne Bird
Title: 4-H Youth Development Advisor
Specialty: Program development, youth-adult partnership, camping and environmental education, volunteer and non-profit management.
Phone: (916) 875-6423
Email: mbird@ucanr.edu

Linda S Dean
Title: Nutrition Education Program Assistant
Phone: (916) 875-6737
Email: lwdean@ucanr.edu

Patricia (Trisha) Dixon
Email: pjdixon@ucdavis.edu

Debora S. Garcia
Title: Youth EFNEP Program Representative
Phone: (916) 875-6432
Email: dsgarcia@ucanr.edu

Olinda R. Hirsch
Title: Nutrition Education Program Coordinator
Phone: (916) 875-6528
Email: orhirsch@ucanr.edu

Photo of Chuck Ingels Chuck Ingels
Title: Farm Advisor and Interim County Director - County
Specialty: Tree crops, grapes and strawberries, environmental horticulture, and Master Gardeners/urban horticulture. Areas of research and extension focus include IPM, evaluation of sustainable products and practices, water conservation and deficit irrigation, home orchards and vineyards, sustainable landscaping, alternative turfgrass species, and tree training, pruning, and grafting.
Phone: Main: (916) 875-6913; Direct: (916) 875-6527
Email: caingels@ucanr.edu

Vanessa Kenyon
Title: Family Nutrition Education Program Representative
Phone: (916) 875-6421
Email: vvkenyon@ucanr.edu

Svetlana Kolesnikova
Title: Family Nutrition Education Program Representative
Phone: (916) 875-6429
Email: skolesnikova@ucanr.edu

Judy McClure
Title: Landscape Horticulturist Master Gardener Program Coordinator
Specialty: Landscape horticulture in general with an emphasis on water quality education, landscape trees and water efficient landscapes, Master Gardeners volunteer program
Phone: (916) 875-6719
Email: jmmcclure@ucanr.edu

Yvonne Nicholson
Title: Nutrition, Family, & Consumer Sciences Advisor and Interim County Director - University
Specialty: Multicultural dietary food practices, resource management, Nutrition Education Program Supervisor
Phone: (916) 875-6722
Email: ynicholson@ucanr.edu

Linda Lee Noyer
Title: Adminstrative Services Officer I
Specialty: Administrative Services
Phone: (916) 875-6420
Email: llnoyer@ucanr.edu

Mrs Joan Ryan
Title: Senior Office Assistant
Specialty: County Director, Nutrition, Master Food Preserver, Agriculture, Master Gardener, and 4-H Youth Development Program
Phone: (916) 875-6811
Email: joryan@ucanr.edu

Cross-county Staff/Faculty

Photo of Kent Brittan Kent Brittan
Title: Emeritus Farm Advisor for Field Crops
Specialty: Small grains, corn and biofuel crops
Address:
Cooperative Extension Yolo/Solano County
70 Cottonwood ST
Woodland, CA 95695
Phone: (530) 666-8143
Fax: 530-666-8736
Email: klbrittan@ucanr.edu

Photo of Christopher A Greer Ph.D. Christopher A Greer Ph.D.
Title: County Director - Sutter-Yuba and Colusa Counties
Specialty: Rice Farming Systems Advisor - Pest management, cultural practices, environmental interactions
Address:
Cooperative Extension Sutter-Yuba Counties
142A Garden Highway
Yuba City, CA 95991-5512
Phone: (530) 822-7515
Fax: (530) 673-5368
Email: cagreer@ucanr.edu

Photo of Michelle Leinfelder-Miles Ph.D. Michelle Leinfelder-Miles Ph.D.
Title: Farm Advisor
Specialty: Crop Production, Soil and Water Quality, the Delta
Address:
Cooperative Extension San Joaquin County
2101 East Earhart Avenue, Suite 200
Stockton, CA 95206
Phone: 209-953-6120
Email: mmleinfeldermiles@ucanr.edu

Photo of Rachael Freeman Long Rachael Freeman Long
Title: County Director, Farm Advisor for Field Crops, Pest Management
Specialty: Pest management, agronomy, dry beans, alfalfa, water quality, oil seed crops
Address:
Cooperative Extension Yolo County
70 Cottonwood Street
Left Side Of Building
Woodland, CA 95695
Phone: office (530) 666-8734
Email: rflong@ucanr.edu

Photo of Gene Miyao Gene Miyao
Title: Farm Advisor, Vegetable Crops
Specialty: Processing tomato production.
Address:
Cooperative Extension Yolo County
70 Cottonwood Street
Left Side Of Building
Woodland, CA 95695
Phone: (530) 666-8732
Email: emmiyao@ucanr.edu