Mark Ritchie
Mark Ritchie...
Mark Ritchie runs[1]the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy and from the same Minneapolis building - Peace Coffee a for-profit company.
Mark Ritchie has been executive director of the Center for Rural Studies, a fee-per-service office at the University of Vermont that provides advocacy research to activist agriculture nonprofits.
He is also a past president of the Organic Buyers and Growers Association.
Ritchie has chaired the International Forum on Food and Agriculture (a project of the International Forum on Globalization) and the board of Sustainable America.
Ritchie also served on the U.S. Trade Representative’s Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee.
Support from Progressive Democrats of America
In line with Secretary of State Project strategy Progressive Democrats of America, also threw their weight[2]behind Mark Ritchie, plus Deborah Bowen and John Bonifaz.
- Given the importance of election integrity, PDA also has worked on secretary of state races around the nation, backing Deborah Bowen in California, Mark Ritchie in Minnesota, and PDA Board Member John Bonifaz in Massachusetts.