My Leadership

As a Senior Research Economist and Program Leader at the Agricultural Risk Policy Center (ARPC), I help steer the Center’s applied-policy mission, serving as a connector between policy questions, analytical capacity, and deliverables, focusing resources on high-priority issues and keeping outputs on standard and on schedule.

Strategic coordination

I support strategic planning and internal coordination across research, communications, and stakeholder engagement, tracking major initiatives, addressing operational and staffing needs, and aligning priorities. I lead a framework for assigning specialty areas to ARPC economists that clarifies roles and matches expertise to the Center’s policy priorities.

Durable infrastructure

I build systems that outlast any single project. I develop internal tools (a press log and a centralized NDSU resources and workflow reference, integrated into ARPC’s Slack) that strengthen transparency and institutional memory. I also lead ARPC’s analytical backbone: a family of open-source software for FCIP simulation, price and basis, cost calibration, peril metrics, and editorial workflows, and I run internal trainings (such as the FCIP baseline-simulation pipeline) so the team applies them consistently.

Partnerships

I strengthen ARPC’s external partnerships by contributing to the Center’s Communications Manual, reporting to USDA’s Office of the Chief Economist, joining policy forums such as the 2025 Midwest Extension Farm Management and Outlook Conference, and helping secure a data licensing agreement with Acres.com. This work builds on connections I maintain across USDA-ERS, RMA, NASS, FPAC, and OCE.

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