My role involves leading several projects that focus on local foods and environmental justice. I appreciate the Center's commitment to idealism and pragmatism, as well as working with rural communities as a whole, addressing economic, social, and environmental projects.
Rural communities seem to be either overlooked or misunderstood in broad national narratives. The Center focuses on positive things happening in rural communities, and I’m glad to be a part of that.
Before coming to the Center, I worked on market vegetable farms, and on agricultural policy in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In 2014, I moved to Iowa to pursue my master’s degree in sociology and sustainable agriculture at Iowa State University.
Since 2016, I have worked out of the Center’s Nevada, Iowa, office. The best part of my job has been and always will be getting to know the people who also care about the Center’s mission, and working alongside our fabulous staff who are great team players.
In my free time, I like to grow vegetables and native prairie plants.
