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Anne Mollo-Christensen is the Chief Executive Officer and an Ex-officio Board Member of Barn Raising Media Inc. Anne was most recently Executive Vice President and Chief Digital and Strategy Officer at Outside Integrated Media, home of Outside magazine, Outside Online and the Outside Podcast.

Bryce Oates writes The Cocklebur on Substack and is a Contributing Editor (Rural Community Organizing) at Barn Raiser. He writes about rural policy, people, places and politics. His work includes narrative nonfiction, opinion pieces and Q&A interviews. Bryce studies how the federal budget affects rural counties,...

Dayton Martindale is a contributing editor at Barn Raiser, host of Storytelling Animals podcast, and an experienced writer and editor on climate, environmental, and animal issues. His work has appeared in Rural America In These Times, In These Times, Sierra, The Ecologist, Earth Island Journal, Boston Review, The...

Devon is a graduate of New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Studies. She grew up in the Dallas, Texas area and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. Devon has 10-plus years of experience designing and developing websites for clients based in New York City and across the country. See more of...

Jake Davis is an entrepreneur, farmer, consultant, and policy advisor. His passion for revitalizing rural communities and safeguarding family farms developed early growing up on a diversified farm in Southwest Missouri. He launched Local Root Strategies in 2020 to help revitalize rural communities and build a...

Jessica Koski is Contributing Writer (Native Life). She is a member of the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community on Lake Superior’s southern shore in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Jessica worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs for five years to support the restoration and conservation of Tribal natural resources,...

Joel Bleifuss is Barn Raiser Editor & Publisher and Board President of Barn Raising Media Inc. He is a descendent of German and Scottish farmers who immigrated to Wisconsin and South Dakota in the 19th Century. Bleifuss was born and raised in Fulton, Mo., a town on the edge of the Ozarks. He graduated from the...

Pushed out of his role as a public school teacher in Fairfield, Iowa, for his refusal to whitewash history, Greg Wickenkamp is an educator, organizer, and proud member of UE Local 896 and Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement. A Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Iowa, he studies state repression of...

Pushed out of his role as a public school teacher in Fairfield, Iowa, for his refusal to whitewash history, Greg Wickenkamp is an educator, organizer, and proud member of UE Local 896 and Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement. A Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Iowa, he studies state repression of...

Pushed out of his role as a public school teacher in Fairfield, Iowa, for his refusal to whitewash history, Greg Wickenkamp is an educator, organizer, and proud member of UE Local 896 and Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement. A Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Iowa, he studies state repression of...

Pushed out of his role as a public school teacher in Fairfield, Iowa, for his refusal to whitewash history, Greg Wickenkamp is an educator, organizer, and proud member of UE Local 896 and Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement. A Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Iowa, he studies state repression of...

Pushed out of his role as a public school teacher in Fairfield, Iowa, for his refusal to whitewash history, Greg Wickenkamp is an educator, organizer, and proud member of UE Local 896 and Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement. A Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Iowa, he studies state repression of...

Pushed out of his role as a public school teacher in Fairfield, Iowa, for his refusal to whitewash history, Greg Wickenkamp is an educator, organizer, and proud member of UE Local 896 and Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement. A Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Iowa, he studies state repression of...

Pushed out of his role as a public school teacher in Fairfield, Iowa, for his refusal to whitewash history, Greg Wickenkamp is an educator, organizer, and proud member of UE Local 896 and Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement. A Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Iowa, he studies state repression of...

Pushed out of his role as a public school teacher in Fairfield, Iowa, for his refusal to whitewash history, Greg Wickenkamp is an educator, organizer, and proud member of UE Local 896 and Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement. A Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Iowa, he studies state repression of...

Pushed out of his role as a public school teacher in Fairfield, Iowa, for his refusal to whitewash history, Greg Wickenkamp is an educator, organizer, and proud member of UE Local 896 and Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement. A Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Iowa, he studies state repression of...

Pushed out of his role as a public school teacher in Fairfield, Iowa, for his refusal to whitewash history, Greg Wickenkamp is an educator, organizer, and proud member of UE Local 896 and Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement. A Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Iowa, he studies state repression of...