Experience

Commercial Supply Co.

• United States
• Retail
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Sales & Marketing Manager

  • Mar 2021 - Present

  Our actual goal? Making our customers’ lives easier. We offer items from tools to textiles to supplies for our customers in the construction, concrete, & other industries…but what we truly want to do is have WHAT they need WHEN they need it. We build relationships to understand our clients’ businesses and strive to be the local, go-to supplier. For more than 75 years, Commercial Supply Co. is dedicated to serving the American worker. Our actual goal? Making our customers’ lives easier. We offer items from tools to textiles to supplies for our customers in the construction, concrete, & other industries…but what we truly want to do is have WHAT they need WHEN they need it. We build relationships to understand our clients’ businesses and strive to be the local, go-to supplier. For more than 75 years, Commercial Supply Co. is dedicated to serving the American worker.



Iowa Meat Truck

• United States
• Food and Beverage Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Mother Trucker

  • Apr 2020 - Present

  I may be the happiest truck driver you'll meet! We are a family-and-friends-based business, partnering with amazing farm families raising livestock and local lockers who are expert butchers to deliver high-quality meat directly to your door. I may be the happiest truck driver you'll meet! We are a family-and-friends-based business, partnering with amazing farm families raising livestock and local lockers who are expert butchers to deliver high-quality meat directly to your door.



Iowa Soybean Association

• United States
• Public Policy Offices
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Agronomic and Conservation Communications Manager

  • Sep 2020 - Feb 2021

• Director of Producer Services

  • Apr 2014 - Sep 2020

  I work with an amazing team of regional coordinators who work to strengthen our District Advisory Councils and grow the association's membership base. We assist in implementing programs and services that expand opportunities and deliver results for Iowa's soybean growers and their customers. It's all about helping our farmers develop leadership skills that support their farms, association, communities and their industry.

• Public Relations Manager

  • Dec 2012 - Apr 2014

  I help lead the association’s communication efforts to the group’s members, media and public. I serve as the primary contact for media requests and write news releases and stories for the association’s newsletters and publications to provide up-to-date news about ISA and soybean production. I also work with the association’s social media efforts, including ISA’s Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/IowaSoybeans) and Twitter feed (@IASoybeans).



Iowa Farm Bureau

• United States
• Farming, Ranching, Forestry
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Communications Specialist

  • Jan 2011 - Dec 2012

  After working for the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation's publications team for more than a decade, I took advantage of the opportunity to join the public relations team as a senior communications specialist. In this role, I assist in fielding media calls and developing media relations to help our farmers and staff tell the story of Iowa agriculture. In addition, I offer training programs for our organization's Speaker Corps group and support other leadership programs. We also offer training, from how to pitch a story to a reporter to how to share a tweet, to all Farm Bureau counties and customize our messages to meet our members' needs. It's an exciting job that allows me to continue writing and promoting our state's farmers and the work they do to raise food, fuel and fiber. Specialties: Writing, event planning, training, public speaking, layout, editing, project management, agriculture of all kinds Show less

• Ag commodities writer

  • Jul 2008 - Jan 2011

  As a reporter for the Iowa Farm Bureau Spokesman, a weekly newspaper distributed to Farm Bureau members, I covered topics including Iowa livestock, commodities, markets and all-things Iowa-ag. I carried a pair of (pink!) work boots in my car at all times...always ready to walk through a hog house or feedlot.



HNL Ink

• Owner/Writer

  • Sep 2000 - Jan 2010



Iowa Farm Bureau Federation

• Features Writer

  • Sep 2000 - Sep 2005