Martha King

Farm Foundation is an accelerator of practical solutions for agriculture. Our mission is to build trust and understanding at the intersections of agriculture and society. We accomplish this by leveraging non-partisan objective dialogue, information and training, catalyzing solutions and creating multi-stakeholder collaboration. Martha King is the Farm Foundation's Vice President, Programs and Projects. She has an extensive background in programs, information systems and publishing, and serves as corporate secretary on her family’s Illinois farm. In 2010, Martha became co-owner and Secretary of Finbery, Inc., a farm located in LaSalle and Livingston counties in Illinois which has been in her family since the 1850s. For the past decade, she has worked in academia on a variety of projects including research, faculty information, publishing, database development, training and human resources. Her expertise includes strategy, research and analysis, information systems and developing and streamlining processes. Martha has an MBA with a focus on information systems management from Loyola University Chicago and a Master of Arts degree in philosophy from Saint Louis University, as well as a bachelor’s degree in German and political science from Purdue University.