Genna Tesdall

Genna Tesdall is the Director of the network Young Professionals for Agricultural Development (YPARD). Before joining YPARD, she was a Fulbright Researcher at the Humboldt University of Berlin (2018-19), and was the former president (2013-14) of the International Association of Agriculture and Related Sciences Students (IAAS). She has also interned and worked as a consultant at the CGIAR International Potato Center (CIP) in Lima, Peru. She is a graduate of Iowa State (2015) and Penn State Universities (2018) with a M.Sc. in Plant Pathology and International Agriculture and Development. In her personal life, she is active in the community cooperative supermarket Super Coop Berlin e.G. and enjoys caring for her small family apple orchard.