Kate Paarlberg-Kvam (she/they) is the Executive Director at Milk with Dignity Standards Council (MDSC), a nonprofit organization dedicated to the monitoring and enforcement of labor rights on farms in the Milk with Dignity Program. MDSC also works to connect participating farms to funding and support from housing partners, making it possible to build new farmworker housing units around the state. Kate holds a doctorate in Latin American Studies from the University at Albany (SUNY) and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, where they researched social movement organizing in Colombia. After teaching college for a decade, Kate worked in asylum seeker support and advocacy in Vermont and co-founded the Vermont Asylum Assistance Project (VAAP) before joining MDSC. Kate lives in Burlington with her two children