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Eleventh Annual Eccles Family Rural West Conference, Welcome & Featured Speaker

Eleventh Annual Eccles Family Rural West Conference Welcome & Featured Speaker Featured speaker David Mas Masumoto, in conversation with Surabhi Balachander David Mas Masumoto, Masumoto Family Farm Mas Masumoto is an organic peach and grape farmer and the author of twelve books including: Epitaph for a Peach, Wisdom of the Last Farmer, Heirlooms, Letters to the Valley, Four Seasons in Five Senses, Harvest Son, Country Voices, and Silent Strength. He, along with his wife, Marcy, and daughter, Nikiko, published a family farm cookbook, The Perfect Peach in 2013. His newest books include Secret Harvests: A Hidden Story of Separation and Resilience on a Family Farm (2023 Red Hen Press), Changing Season, A Father, A Daughter, A Family Farm (2016, Heyday Books) and A Sense of Yosemite (2016 with Nancy Robbins, photographer, Yosemite Conservancy). A feature documentary, “Changing Season on the Masumoto Family Farm,” about the theme of succession on a family farm, was featured at film festivals in 2015-16 and was nationally broadcast by PBS in May, 2016. Masumoto is currently a columnist for The Fresno Bee and the Sacramento Bee. He was a Kellogg Foundation Food and SocietyPolicy Fellow from 2006-2008. His writing awards include Commonwealth Club Silver medal, Julia Child Cookbook award, the James Clavell Literacy Award and a finalist in the James Beard Foundation awards. Wisdom of the Last Farmer was honored as “Best Environmental Writing in 2009” by National Resources Defense Council. The Perfect Peach was named by USA Today as one of best summer cookbooks in 2013. Masumoto received the “Award of Distinction” from UC Davis in 2003 and the California Central Valley “Excellence in Business” Award in 2007. He is currently a board member of the Central Valley Community Foundation, Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) and CalMatters. Previously, he served as the Chair of the PPIC, was a board member on the and James Irvine Foundation (2002-2014), and is the former chair of the California Council for the Humanities board. In 2013, President Obama appointed Masumoto the National Council on the Arts, the board for the National Endowment for the Arts where he served for 10 years. Masumoto (Mas is married to Marcy Masumoto, EdD, and they have a daughter, Nikiko, and a son, Korio.) Surabhi Balachander, Oregon State University Surabhi Balachander grew up in Indiana, was a longtime staff member at Stanford University's Bill Lane Center for the American West, and earned her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Balachander's research and teaching interests bridge comparative ethnic studies and the environmental humanities in 20th and 21st century American literature. Her current book project seeks to define rural identity in American literature from 1920-2020, the U.S.'s first century as a majority-urban nation, and shows that rural America, in contrast to popular stereotypes, is best understood as multiethnic and cosmopolitan. Her work appears in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment and Western American Literature. Date Wed February 26th - Thu February 27th 2025, All day Event Sponsor The Bill Lane Center for the American West The California Water Institute at Fresno State The Maddy Institute Central Valley Community Foundation San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District