Lynne Carpenter-Boggs is a Professor and Department Chair in the Department of Crop and Soil Science at Washington State University (WSU). Her primary areas of research and teaching are biologically intensive and organic farming systems, and beneficial plant-soil-microbial interactions. She works with scientists and farmers to understand and improve the carbon footprint of farming, crop nutritional quality and safety, soil health, livestock/human composting, and other aspects of sustainability. Lynne received the 2022 Tilth Alliance “Advocate of the Year” award at the Tilth Conference in 2022 in honor of her decades long support of the Tilth movement.