Kate Greenberg

Commissioner | Colorado Department of Agriculture

Kate Greenberg was appointed to serve as Colorado’s first female Commissioner of Agriculture by Governor Jared Polis in December 2018. As Commissioner, Greenberg provides leadership and direction to the Colorado Department of Agriculture and its 300 employees.

Prior to her appointment, Greenberg was the Western Program Director for the National Young Farmers Coalition (NYFC) out of Durango, Colorado. In her role as Western Director, she organized farmers and ranchers to advocate for state and federal policies that best serve them. Her work focused on farmland affordability, ag education, protecting water for agriculture and expanding access to capital and credit for young and beginning producers.

Leading up to her tenure at NYFC, Greenberg farmed on various operations across the West, managed Western policy field programs through her alma mater, Whitman College, and worked in natural resource education and restoration from eastern Washington to Mexico’s Colorado River Delta.

Greenberg is the recipient of the Emerging Conservation Leader Award from Western Resource Advocates and an awardee of the 2019 Who’s Who In Agriculture recognition from Colorado Farm Bureau and the Denver Business Journal. She graduated from Water Education Colorado’s Water Leaders flagship course in 2018 and is a former board member of the Quivira Coalition, which brings ranchers, scientists, and conservationists together to practice land stewardship at the radical center.

Greenberg serves on numerous boards and commissions, including the Colorado Water Conservation Board, Colorado Parks and Wildlife, and is currently the Board Chair of the Western United States Agriculture Trade Association (WUSATA) and Vice Chair of the Western Association of State Departments of Agriculture (WASDA). In addition to visiting with farmers and ranchers, she loves traveling and spending time where cell phones don’t reach with her partner and dog Daisy."