Before starting Farm Bridge Communications in 2025, I served in leadership corporate communications roles at Syngenta Crop Protection North America and the Crop Science division of Bayer. At the latter, I was the first lead of corporate external communications for the U.S. region after the acquisition of Monsanto. At Syngenta, I helped lead farmer communication and issues.

Before entering corporate communications in 2004, I was fortunate enough to live my dream to be a journalist. As a kid from a gritty inner suburb of St. Louis (two generations away from the farm), I had grown up yearning to travel the world reporting on complex issues, and that’s what I got to do: in Chicago, Atlanta, Boston, Budapest, Prague, Sydney, and lastly, in rural Illinois. This includes stints with Dow Jones Newswires, CNN Headline News, The Associated Press, business weeklies and local TV news.

In 2015, I also served as the Editor of Farm Journal Magazine and the Editorial Director of Farm Journal Media, one of the largest multi-platform trade brands in America and an icon for many farming families. Other formative work in ag includes supporting the media and communications needs of the United Soybean Board (national soybean checkoff) and their Executive Team, and serving as a food-and-ag issues monitor for vFluence, an interactive agency integral to the cause of sound-science in communications.

Education and Achievements: I have bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Northwestern University’s acclaimed Medill School of Journalism. I have served as a judge for industry-leading editorial content and have been a keynote speaker internationally on the challenges of corporate storytelling in adverse media environments (New York, 2022; Toronto, 2023; Ottawa, 2024).

Above all, I’m a grateful cousin, niece, and grand-daughter of Missouri and Illinois farmers, committed to a future where both city and rural, Red and Blue, speak the same language on all things.