Olivia Tincani {Olivia Tincani & Co., LLC} is a food and agriculture business consultant and educator with 18 years of experience in the field. Her work focuses on business and strategic planning, entrepreneurial empowerment, producer training and technical assistance for institutions that service farmers, ranchers, and food businesses. She has specific expertise in whole animal supply chains, regional food systems development, food service establishments, communications, and community building. Her current work focuses on designing and executing extensive business training programs for non-profit organizations’ farmer and food producer initiatives. Projects include work with venerated organizations such as the Chicago Botanic Garden’s Windy City Harvest Incubator, Glynwood, Southwest Grassfed Livestock Alliance, Pie Ranch, and Fibershed. She also works directly with food and farm business clients, past clients including Rancho Llano Seco, The Farm Bridge, Bonny Doon Vineyard, and the Phoenicia Diner. She was the co-founder of food service management company Fare Resources and founder of Farm 255 and Farm Burger, landmark restaurant enterprises with jointly-operated vegetable and pasture-based livestock farms in the southeast. Service is a crucial element of her business approach. She is on the Advisory Board of the National Farm Viability Conference and has been a guest speaker at multiple universities and conferences. She was a founding Board member of Kitchen Table Advisors, an organization providing business and financial coaching to primarily minority, immigrant and women-owned farming businesses, where she continues to dedicate pro bono advising services to the program team. Olivia has served as an advisor and community organizer for grassroots/non-profit organizations including CUESA, The National Young Farmers Coalition, Georgia Organics, Compassion in World Farming, Slow Food, and The Greenhorns and is a Chef’s Collaborative member, multi-year Slow Food Terra Madre delegate, and a National Young Farmers Coalition member. Olivia splits time between Sonoma County (CA), and her husband’s family farm and winery in the Valtènesi region of Italy, with her hands in the dirt and her skin in the game.