Mary Bulan

(she/her)
Co-Chair

Dr. Bulan is a professor in the environmental studies department and the director of sustainable agriculture programs at Warren Wilson College.  Her responsibilities include teaching courses in agriculture, food systems, and environment; mentoring undergraduate research, and overseeing management of the 280-acre student-run college farm and garden. Dr. Bulan completed her doctorate in agronomy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2014.  She conducted research on buckwheat (Fagopyrum spp.) farming systems in Yunnan, China and Wisconsin, USA. Prior to coming to Warren Wilson, Dr. Bulan worked at Unity College in Maine as an assistant professor of sustainable agriculture enterprise and director of the McKay Farm and Research Station.  Before graduate school, she ran a market garden, CSA, and pickle farm in Cranston, Rhode Island.  Her farm was a member of a growers’ cooperative in Providence that sold produce to local restaurants and a  farmer’s market.  She previously worked for an urban agriculture land trust in Providence, was a WWOOFer in British Columbia, and farmed paddy rice with her family in Malaysia. She holds an undergraduate degree in international relations from Brown University. She joined the board in December 2018.