Tina currently serves as the Chief of Staff and VP of Rural Services for Land O’Lakes, Inc. Prior to joining Land O’Lakes, Tina was an international grain trader, a Silicon Valley executive, Chief of Staff to the Deputy Secretary of Agriculture at USDA, Legislative Director at USDA, and senior policy staff for the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture during the writing, negotiation, and passage of both the 2008 and 2014 Farm Bills.
She earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota and master’s degree from the University of London. Tina serves on the board of The Good Acre, The Global Child Nutrition Foundation, and founded a non-profit in her rural hometown that fundraises and invests in community led development. Tina hails from a family farm in rural Iowa and resides in the Midwest with her husband and three young sons.
