Adjunct Faculty - Food Marketing
University of Massachusetts
cbarstow@umext.umass.edu

Cynthia Barstow is a well-known eco-foods marketing lecturer, consultant, and speaker, and recently authored The Eco-Foods Guide: What's Good for the Earth is Good for You! Barstow is an adjunct faculty at the University of Massachusetts in the Stockbridge School of Agriculture and an environmental/sustainable agriculture-marketing consultant. Her clients have included the World Wildlife Fund/WPVGA/UW-M "Protected Harvest" eco-label program and CISA, the Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture, Kellogg project. She is on the boards of the Biodynamic Farmland Conservation Trust/Brookfield Farm, the New England Small Farm Institute and the North East Sustainable Agriculture Working Group.

Barstow spent the first ten years of her career climbing the corporate ladder, from promotions director at public television stations to director of advertising and creative services at WABC Radio in New York City, to vice president of marketing for a $3-billion restaurant company in Manhattan.