Executive Director of VISTA F3
Dr. Leigh Bernacchi holds a Ph.D. from Texas A&M University and conducted post-doctoral research on climate change adaptation and agriculture. She is the executive director of VISTA F3 at UC Merced. Before F3, she was the executive director of the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and the Banatao Institute at UC Merced and the coordinator of the University of California Water Security and Sustainability Initiative.