FOOD SYSTEMS - Key Persons


Ali Farra

Job Titles:
  • Business Operations Manager

Audree Baxter

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Director of Budget and Financ

Bradley Marks

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Chairperson

Brian Horgan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Academic Department Chairs & School Directors Team
  • Professor and Chairperson

Catherine Ernst

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Academic Department Chairs & School Directors Team
  • Professor and Chairperson

Chad Cotti

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Academic Department Chairs & School Directors Team

Cheryl Eschbach

Job Titles:
  • MSU Extension Institute Director
  • Health & Nutrition Institute Director

Colleen Matts

Job Titles:
  • Director, Farm to Institution Programs

Dana Infante

Job Titles:
  • AgBioResearch Director
  • Professor MSU AgBioResearch Associate Director

Dave Ivan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the CRFS Advisory Board
  • MSU Extension Institute Director
  • Community, Food & Environment Institute Director
  • Director, MSU Extension Community, Food & Environment Institute

Dorcia Chaison

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean for Academic Advising and Student Success

Emma Beauchamp

Job Titles:
  • Communications Strategist

Faith Cullens-Nobis

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Director, South Campus Animal Farms

Fredric Janzen

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Academic Department Chairs & School Directors Team

Gail Imig

Job Titles:
  • Consultant
  • Member of the CRFS Advisory Board

Gary Roloff

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Chairperson

George Smith

Job Titles:
  • Director of AgBioResearch, Senior Associate Dean for Research

Hannah Burrack

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Academic Department Chairs & School Directors Team
  • Professor and Chairperson

Heather Proctor

Job Titles:
  • Business Operations and Finance Assistant

James Kells

Job Titles:
  • AgBioResearch Director
  • Professor MSU AgBioResearch Assistant Director Project GREEEN Coordinator

Jamie Rahrig

Job Titles:
  • Michigan Good Food Fund Specialist, Innovation Counselor

Jazmin Bolan-Williamson

Job Titles:
  • Farm and Food Business Consultant

Jeffrey Martin

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Senior Director of Development

Jordan Lindsay

Job Titles:
  • Fellow

Judith Barry

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director

Julie Chapin

Job Titles:
  • MSU Extension Institute Director
  • Children and Youth Institute Director

Karen Lehman

Job Titles:
  • Member of the CRFS Advisory Board
  • Director, Fresh Taste

Kathryn Lynch Underwood

Job Titles:
  • Member of the CRFS Advisory Board
  • Senior Planner, City of Detroit City Planning Commission
MSU College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (CANR) and CANR Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion has awarded the Center for Regional Food Systems a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Gold Badge in recognition of the center's diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in 2021-22 and 2019-20. Learn more about CRFS's commitment to racial equity.

Kelly Kussmaul

Job Titles:
  • Director of Communications and Marketing

Kelly Millenbah

Job Titles:
  • Dean

Kolia Souza

Job Titles:
  • Equity & Advocacy Specialist

Laura Bix

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean for Teaching, Learning and Academic Analytics

Laura Schmitt Olabisi

Job Titles:
  • Faculty Fellow

Leslie D. Bourquin

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Academic Department Chairs & School Directors Team
  • Professor and Chairperson

Lindsey Scalera

Job Titles:
  • Community Food Systems Collaboration Specialist

Liz Gensler

Job Titles:
  • Outreach Specialist

M. Jahi Johnson-Chappell

Job Titles:
  • Director, Center for Regional Food Systems, Professor, and W.K. Kellogg Endowed Chair

Mary Weinzweig


Matthew Daum

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Academic Department Chairs & School Directors Team
  • Professor and Director

Meagan Shedd

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, Fixed Term, Farm to Early Care and K - 12 Education

Megan McManus

Job Titles:
  • Farm to Institution Specialist

Melissa Hill

Job Titles:
  • Communications Manager

Meredith Freeman

Job Titles:
  • Member of the CRFS Advisory Board
  • Senior Program Officer, Max M. and Marjorie S. Fisher Foundation

Mike Hamm

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • C.S. Mott Endowed Chair
  • Professor Emeritus, C.S. Mott Chair of Sustainable Agricultur

Noel Bielaczyc

Job Titles:
  • Value Chain Specialist

Patrick Cudney

Job Titles:
  • Director of Government and Stakeholder Relations

Quentin Tyler

Job Titles:
  • Director of MSU Extension, Senior Associate Dean for Outreach and Engagement, Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Rachel Kelly

Job Titles:
  • Program Coordinator

Rebecca Jordan

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Chairperson

Renee Gagnier - CHRO

Job Titles:
  • Director of Human Resources

René Hinojosa

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Academic Department Chairs & School Directors Team
  • Interim School Director

Ricardo Salvador

Job Titles:
  • Member of the CRFS Advisory Board
  • Director and Senior Scientist of the Food and Environment Program, Union of Concerned Scientists
  • Director and Senior Scientist, Food and Environment Program, Union of Concerned Scientists

Richard Chester

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director of Human Resources

Richard Kobe

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Chairperson

Ron Bates

Job Titles:
  • MSU Extension Institute Director
  • Agriculture & Agribusiness Institute Director

Sam Stokes

Job Titles:
  • Food & Farm Business Outreach Specialist

Scott Loveridge

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean for Faculty Affairs and Development

Shiloh Maples

Job Titles:
  • Consultant
  • Member of the CRFS Advisory Board

Vance Baird

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Academic Department Chairs & School Directors Team
  • Professor and Chairperson

Vicki Morrone

Job Titles:
  • Academic Specialist