Friday, April 14, 2023
8:00 – 9:00 AM | Speaker
9:00 – 9:30 AM | Networking (optional)
Hybrid Event! Attend in-person or virtually.
Advance registration is required by April 6, 2023
Register for the Virtual Event
If you would like to attend in person please contact April Graham at grahamap@umkc.edu.
Rachel Stroer serves as the President of The Land Institute, the first woman president to lead the organization in its 45-year history. Stroer has held various roles at The Land Institute since joining in 2015, including Chief Operating Officer and Chief Strategy Officer. Surrounded by a community of scientists and researchers, Stroer is leading the adoption of a bold new strategic vision to reconcile the human economy with Nature's economy, starting with food. Under her stewardship, The Land Institute is catalyzing an international network of collaborators and advocates—connected across space and deeply rooted in place—to develop diverse, perennial grain agriculture and an ecological future for all.
Rachel completed her bachelor’s at New York University’s Gallatin School where she studied the connections and relationships between humans and the biotic and abiotic ecosphere through performance studies, ethnography, evolutionary biology, and the great books of philosophy upon which our dualistic culture and ideologies were built. She later completed a Master of Business Administration through the Executive MBA program at the Bloch School of Management at University of Missouri, Kansas City.
The Land Institute
The Land Institute is a 501(c)(3) non-profit research organization based in Salina, Kansas, founded in 1976. The Land Institute co-leads the global movement for perennial, diverse, intrinsically regenerative agriculture at a scale. Led by a team of plant breeders and ecologists in multiple partnerships worldwide, they develop perennial grains, pulses, and oilseed-bearing plants to be grown in ecologically intensified, diverse crop mixtures known as perennial polycultures. The Land Institute aims to create an agriculture system that produces ample food and reduces or eliminates the negative impacts of agriculture, with natural systems as the measure of success. Through transdisciplinary research and collaboration, The Land Institute builds learning communities to help society cross the threshold into diverse, perennial grain agricultures.
Contact Information
April Graham
816-235-1396
grahamap@umkc.edu
