August Ruckdeschel

Clean Energy Coordinator
631-727-7850 x350
ar2464@cornell.edu
Clean Energy

August Ruckdeschel is a former Long Island vegetable farmer with a B.S. in Business Administration from Washington & Lee University in Lexington, VA and a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the University of Colorado in Boulder. August worked in the Suffolk County Department of Economic Development & Planning for ten years as the Farmland and Open Space Coordinator and Economic Development Specialist in the Agriculture & Marine industries. For five years, August also taught a Masters-level class entitled Food Policy and Health Outcomes in the United States at the Stony Brook University School of Medicine.