Our Staff
Field to Market’s staff brings passion and experience to growing and nurturing the leading initiative for sustainable agriculture in the U.S. In close collaboration with our Board of Directors, we work to catalyze and scale productive and profitable opportunities across the agricultural value chain for continuous improvements in environmental outcomes. Meet our team below.
Scott Herndon
President
Scott Herndon serves as the President of Field to Market. Prior to joining Field to Market in 2022, he served as the Vice President and General Counsel of the American Sugarbeet Growers Association, focusing on sustainability, the Farm Bill and regulatory issues.
Scott has also served as Director of Global Government and Public Policy for S & P Global in Washington, D.C. and in various roles for Members of the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate and the Florida Senate. He also worked in the orange juice production business started by his great grandfather, for Louis Dreyfus Commodities in Brazil, and for a citrus and cattle business in Florida.
Scott holds a JD from the University of Miami, an MBA from the University of Florida, and a BA from Tulane University. He has studied in Costa Rica, Argentina, Mexico and Brazil. Scott currently lives in Washington, DC with his wife, daughter and Labrador Retriever. He is admitted to practice law by the Supreme Court of the United States, the District of Columbia and the State of Florida. Scott currently serves as Chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Agricultural Advisory Committee.
Paul Hishmeh
Vice President of Science and Technology
Paul Hishmeh serves as Field to Market’s Vice President of Science and Technology. Paul oversees the intersection of Field to Market’s science and technology workstreams, ensuring successful implementation and delivery of their science-based sustainability framework that underlies the Fieldprint Platform and Continuous Improvement Accelerator. Paul brings over 20 years of information technology and project/program management experience plus previous experience in the environmental engineering field. Paul holds a B.S. in Agricultural Engineering from the University of Maryland.
Kelsey Swango Billings
Vice President of Innovation & Stakeholder Engagement
Kelsey Billings currently serves as Field to Market’s Vice President of Innovation and Stakeholder Engagement. Prior to joining the team, Kelsey served as the Senior Director of Industry Affairs and Sustainability at the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives (NCFC). In that role, Kelsey oversaw the organization’s efforts on sustainability, climate change policy, director and young producer development, and policy issues directly impacting operations of NCFC members. She also served as the Treasurer of the NCFC CO-OP/PAC, where she managed the PAC’s finances and coordinated events with members of Congress who support NCFC’s mission.
In 2014, she received a Master of Business Administration from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University and a Master of Science with a concentration in Agricultural Economics from Purdue University. In 2012, Kelsey served as a Public Policy Fellow at The Fund for American Studies and is an alumnus of the International Institute for Political and Economic Systems, and the Institute on Business and Governmental Affairs with the same program. She earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Missouri in 2010.
Kelsey was born and raised in Bloomington, IL where she found her calling to agriculture through family farming and 4-H. She currently resides in Davidsonville, MD with her husband and two sons.
Kelly Murray Young
Senior Director, Education and Inclusion
Kelly shapes the content of Field to Market’s events with an educational component and drives leadership in diversity, equity and inclusion efforts across our membership. Throughout her career, Kelly partnered with growers to improve productivity as they adopt production practices that optimize pest and nutrient management, conserve water, and build healthy soils. She is passionate about sustainable agriculture and considers herself a biologist from the cradle. Kelly earned both her B.S. in Biology and M.S. in Botany from Arizona State University.
Eric Coronel
Director, Science and Research
Eric Coronel serves as Field to Market's Director of Science and Research. Prior to joining the team, Eric was the first full-time sustainability director for the American Peanut Council, where he oversaw the implementation of an industry-wide sustainability initiative for two growing seasons.
Previously, Eric served as Field to Market’s Senior Research Analyst from 2018-2021, where he completed many projects, including updating the crop benchmarks for the Fieldprint Platform 3.0 release, developing the 2021 National Indicators Report, and creating the data analyst training course.
Eric’s experience applying a Continuous Improvement Accelerator project at the field level has given him an enhanced perspective to bring more value to Field to Market members. Eric holds a B.S. and M.S. in Environmental Science and a Ph.D. in Crop Sciences from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Lainey Wolf
Director, Grant Programs
Lainey Wolf serves as Field to Market's Director of Grant Programs. Prior to joining the team, Lainey served as the Manager of International Programs for the American Seed Trade Association. In that role, Lainey managed ASTA's federal grant programs focused on export market development, lead international policy discussions, and managed projects with international organizations, U.S. and foreign governments, and domestic and international agriculture industries.
Lainey holds a Master of Science in Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communications and a Bachelor of Science in Animal Science from Texas A&M University, as well as a certificate in nonprofit management from the George Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M. Lainey was born and raised in Detroit, Texas, but now resides on a cattle ranch in Montana..
Coralie Pierre
Director, Programs & Partnerships
Coralie Pierre is the Director of Programs and Partnerships at Field to Market. She is responsible for recruiting and onboarding new member organizations and increasing project enrollment in the Continuous Improvement Accelerator. Prior to joining Field to Market, Coralie worked for Nutrien Ag Solutions where she designed a sustainable agriculture action plan for the Western US region branches. She also has extensive experience in the private sector, embassies, and international non-governmental organizations in Haiti, including in public affairs, stakeholder relationship management, project design and management, research and data analysis, and identification of sustainable solutions. She is fluent in French, Haitian Creole, and has an intermediate level in Spanish. Coralie holds a MBA in Corporate Sustainability and a Graduate Certificate in Carbon Management from Colorado State University, as well as bachelor’s degrees in business management and law from Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Technologie and the State University of Haiti.
Katrina Stacey
Senior Manager, Communications and Marketing
Katrina serves as Field to Market's Senior Manager of Communications and Marketing, driving strategic marketing and communications to build upon and enhance Field to Market's reputation as the voice of the agriculture value chain. Katrina comes to Field to Market from the National Association of Conservation Districts (NACD), where she served as the organization's communications coordinator for almost three years. In this role, she developed and delivered communications among NACD's stakeholders, managed NACD's social media channels, and supported the execution of NACD meetings. She also served as the staff lead on a number of NACD's soil health projects, including soil health case study projects and a soil testing project. Katrina received a bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland, College Park, in Environmental Science and Policy and concentrated her studies in agriculture.
Krista Vandetty
Operations Manager
Krista Vandetty is Field to Market's Operations Manager, responsible for ensuring the organization's operations run smoothly by working with staff to implement annual and long-range strategic plans, performing routine bookkeeping, managing human resource needs, and more. Prior to joining the team, she worked as the Operations Manager and Director of Development for a start-up educational equity nonprofit, 4th-Dimension Leaders where she ran the day-to-day operations, helped to launch equity-focused and capacity building programs, and fundraised for the sustainability of the organization. In addition, Krista taught English in Madrid, Spain and has worked on community development and research in the environmental nonprofit space. Krista holds a BA in International Studies with a concentration in Sustainable Development from Susquehanna University.
Austin Pearce
Staff Scientist
Dr. Austin Pearce is Field to Market's Staff Scientist. Prior to joining Field to Market, Austin served as a a postdoctoral scholar at North Carolina State University, working with collaborators across the U.S. to develop the Fertilizer Recommendation Support Tool. His research experiences during graduate school included assessing phosphorus transport in streams of a Utah watershed, managing an environmental testing lab, and conducting phosphorus balances on Virginia dairy farms to understand nutrient use sustainability. Austin is a member of the American Society of Agronomy and Soil Science Society of America and speaks Tagalog. He holds degrees in Crop and Soil Environmental Science from Virginia Tech and Environmental Science from Brigham Young University.
Sydney Mucha
Sustainability Projects Manager
Syndey Mucha serves as Field to Market's Sustainability Projects Manager. Prior to joining Field to Market, she worked in the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services' Division of Soil and Water Conservation for three years, holding two positions - AgWRAP Coordinator and Training Coordinator. In her time as AgWRAP Coordinator, Sydney worked to support the water storage, availability and efficiency needs of North Carolina’s agricultural community by managing their one million dollar cost share program. In her most recent role as Training Coordinator, Sydney helped implement a statewide conservation planning and best management practice training program for all soil and water conservation district staff. Prior to her time with the Division, Sydney worked as a Conservation Planning Manager at the Wildlife Habitat Council, focusing on corporate conservation, and as a Environmental Consultant for sustainability and compliance for the federal government in Washington, D.C. Sydney received her Master’s Degree in Environmental Science with a concentration in green and sustainable infrastructure from American University and her Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Science and Sustainability from Davis & Elkins College.
Jasmine Wibisono
Sustainability MMRV Manager
Jasmine Wibisono has several years of experience in both private and public sector roles in clean energy and sustainability. She began her career at a residential solar energy company where she gained experience with project monitoring and metrics reporting procedures that were applied to projects across Long Island and New York City. During her graduate studies, Jasmine focused on sustainability in food systems while earning a Master of Science in Climate Science and Policy. For her final graduate project, she worked alongside experts from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization to assess the sustainability and security of major global crops. Throughout her career, she has maintained a commitment to the impact of coalition building and stakeholder engagement to create more equitable, diverse, and inclusive spaces and communities.
Alyssa Hernandez
Program Assistant
Alyssa Hernandez serves as Field to Market's Program Assistant. Prior to joining the team, she worked as a Programs Coordinator at Florida International University’s Institute of Environment for over two years where she oversaw numerous projects, grants, research groups, and collaboratives focused on environmental and community resilience for the Miami-Dade County area. She led coordination for a large-scale citizen science program along with multiple volunteer events, webinars, and data collections for academic/scientific research. Alyssa was also the project lead for the City of Miami’s 2018 Greenhouse Gas Inventory, and then partnered with the Florida Climate Institute to co-author the State of Florida’s 1990-2018 greenhouse gas inventory and net-zero action plan. Tapping into her agricultural interests, Alyssa spent a year working on a West Virginia farmstead as a Sustainable Agriculture Associate, participating in sustainable agriculture duties, research, and initiatives, and gaining firsthand experience on the operations behind small-scale farming. Alyssa holds a Bachelor's Degree in Sustainability & The Environment and a minor in Environmental Science from Florida International University. She also received certificates in Coastal & Marine Affairs and Biodiversity Conservation & Management.