Over the course of a 25-year career spanning Fortune 500 companies, nonprofits and foundations, Amy has worked to reimagine the systems that deliver sustainable food, clean water and low carbon energy to society. Amy has worked domestically and internationally at every point in the food-fuel-fiber value chain, advancing new paradigms for a healthy, thriving society and planet. She currently serves as President of Trust In Food, a purpose-driven business accelerating the adoption of regenerative agriculture across the U.S., and America’s Conservation Ag Movement, one of the largest and most diverse public-private partnerships in conservation agriculture’s history. Trust In Food is a division of Farm Journal, U.S. agriculture’s leading business intelligence and communications company.

Kaeli leads the Client Success Trust In Food team focusing on project management and creating an excellent customer journey. With more than 15 years of media and managing and executing programs to ensure client success, Kaeli’s diligence and expertise ensures that all of our work benefits the short and longterm goals of our clients and the industry.

Working in agriculture communications for more than a decade has taught Jamie Sears Rawlings one principle: In order for the industry to accept and adopt change, it must have information to drive those decisions. Jamie joins the Trust In Food and American’s Conservation Ag Movement to focus on providing more of the information needed to bridge the gap between consumers and the farm-gate and help propel conservation agriculture to the forefront of all conversations.  

In his role as Director of Technical Assistance, Andrew Lyon uses his expertise to support growers in Trust in Food’s Connected Ag Project. His 15+ year career has focused on natural resource conservation, soil health, water quality improvement, water conservation and building public/private partnerships. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Kansas State University in Agriculture and a master’s degree from Oklahoma State University in Environmental Science. Andy and his family operate a commercial cow/calf ranching operation near Emporia, Kansas.

Emily Maneval is Trust In Food’s Senior Manager, Influence Programs. Her work focuses specifically with our America’s Conservation Ag Movement (ACAM) clients. She engages our private and public sector partners to ensure they are receiving the support needed to achieve their goals and deliverables while maintaining the progress and integrity of the influence program mission to accelerate conservation agriculture. Her goal is to achieve efficient and effective project management while maintaining highly satisfied clients. 

Amy is a project manager with over 25 years of experience in the agriculture sector, including roles in both large companies and non-profits. With deep roots in rural Central Illinois, she has a strong passion for agriculture. At Farm Journal, she combines 30 years of industry experience with expertise in Market Research, focusing on customer insights and project oversight. She serves as a Coordinator for Farm Journal Intelligence.

Joelle leads Trust In Food’s visual communications strategy and execution for key producer-facing initiatives including the Connected Ag Project and Trust In Beef. With over a decade of experience in marketing, communications and brand management, she applies a holistic approach to addressing challenges through creative solutions. She and her husband own and operate Orem Farms in Central Indiana where they manage an integrated crop and livestock operation and a thriving direct-to-consumer beef business. As fourth-generation farmers, they firmly believe in transparency within the food industry and have recently started the transition to regenerative agricultural practices.

Chelsea Slaton is the Grants Manager for Trust In food.  In this role, Chelsea utilizes her vast experience in managing grant programs and projects to ensure that we have the systems, processes, and reporting needed to meet requirements and to ensure that we can demonstrate the impact being made. She liaises with partners on financial and impact reporting, as well as operational needs.  Chelsea comes to Trust in Food from California Farmland Trust where she served as the Conservation Director. Her previous roles include working as the Director of Development for the California Waterfowl Association and prior to that, managing the Political Affairs Department of the California Farm Bureau Federation. Chelsea has a keen awareness that it takes many contributing parties to succeed in conservation and believes that for long-term and widespread conservation practices in agriculture to be successful, the future will require support and consideration of many stakeholders.

Rebecca Tobin excels at analyzing data, specifically as a way to accelerate change behavior. She uses her expertise in statistical analysis, modeling and uncovering patterns to bring actionable insights to our clients and partners to help build a more resilient future for the agricultural industry. Rebecca has first-hand experience on American farms, both growing up on a small farm in Minnesota and later working on an organic farm in Montana. She first experienced the intersection of data and agriculture while executing agricultural field research in both her undergraduate and graduate studies. 

Lais serves as the Corn Belt Sustainable Commodities Technical Manager, bringing her expertise in crop science with a focus on plant breeding from both her Master’s and PhD studies at North Carolina State University.

Lindsey specializes in spatial data, mapping, and remote sensing. She is passionate about data visualization and finding ways to communicate science and data in ways that are both clear and useful to people from all backgrounds.

Dr. Stella Suddarth is a soil scientist with over a decade of expertise in enhancing crop yield and plant quality under stress conditions through in-depth research in soil fertility, plant nutrition, plant physiology, soil microbiology, and water-plant management.

Dr. Robert Williams joins Trust In Food as the Sustainable Livestock Genetics Technical Manager, following a long career in the beef industry.