Maria Graziani is a Senior Research Specialist at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), where she spearheads innovative projects focused on strengthening agricultural markets across the U.S.. With over 15 years of experience, Maria has been instrumental in developing outputs supporting food hub operator success, innovative grocery sourcing models, improving technical assistance for producers scaling to wholesale, and understanding the impact of subsidies on growing mid-tier agriculture. Ms. Graziani is exemplary at leading research teams and projects across multiple topical areas, and has successfully been awarded millions of dollars in grant funds towards applied research. She has a certificate in Data Analytics and can lead high quality evaluation with data visualization.More...