Leah Wilkinson is the American Feed Industry Association’s vice president of public policy and education. Growing up on a Minnesota swine farm, and as a graduate in swine production from the University of Minnesota, she also worked for the National Pork Producers Council and the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. [node:read-more:link]

Drew Westen is a professor of psychology at Emory University, focusing on the interface of psychodynamics and neuroscience. He is the author of The Political Brain: The role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation. [node:read-more:link]

Eric Wareham serves as a Director of Government Affairs at Western Equipment Dealers Association. Before joining WEDA, he served as in-house counsel for Kerr Contractors, Vice President of Government Relations for the Western Wood Preservers Institute and numerous staff positions in the Oregon State Legislature. [node:read-more:link]

Nick Tindall is the Senior Director, Government & Industry Relations, he is a native of north central Iowa where his family farm still produces corn and soybeans. [node:read-more:link]

Thompson is one of the longest serving members of the Louisiana Legislature, first elected to the House in 1975. He was term limited from the House in 2007, when he won a seat in the Senate. He has also been an Assistant Professor at Northeast Louisiana University and Vice President of a manufacturing corporation. He is now term-limited in the Senate and is seeking a State House seat in 2019. [node:read-more:link]

An Iowa native, Senator Annette Sweeney grew up on a family farm near Buckeye. After graduating from college, she educated middle school students as a teacher of English and speech. Upon her father’s untimely death in 1983, Senator Sweeney moved back home to Buckeye to the family farm with her mother and sister. [node:read-more:link]

Jerry Sonnenberg has been farming and ranching in northeastern Colorado his entire life. He continues to live and work on the same family farm that both his father and he were raised. He was first elected to the House in 2006, and moved to the Senate 8 years later. [node:read-more:link]

Representative Ryan is in his 13th term in he House. He is a graduate of Pennsylvania College of Optometry with a Doctorate in Optometry and a certificate in Public Health. [node:read-more:link]

Joining the Colorado House in 2017, Representative Roberts is Deputy District Attorney for the Eagle County [node:read-more:link]

Larry Rhoden is South Dakota's lieutenant governor, a past President of SARL, a lifelong West River rancher, runs a custom welding business and served in both the House and Senate. [node:read-more:link]