Elyssa Arnold is the Ecological Regulatory Risk Assessor in USDA’s Office of Pest Management Policy (OPMP) where she works to represent the needs of growers in the pesticide regulatory process. Elyssa focuses primarily on Endangered Species Act compliance for pesticide registrations and serves on the FIFRA-ESA Interagency Working Group. Elyssa previously spent 9 years in EPA’s Environmental Fate and Effects Division (EFED) within the Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) and 1 year as the Biosolids Program risk assessment lead in EPA’s Office of Water. Elyssa earned her MPH and MEM from the Yale School of Public Health and the Yale School of the Environment, respectively, and a BA in Environmental Studies from Dartmouth College.