People
Board of Directors
The FMC board of directors represents the farmer, consumer, and community interests served by farmers markets. Serving three year terms, the current volunteer board members include the following (click on the names to learn more):
Sharon Yeago
President, FMC
Community Food Activist
High Springs, Florida
Diane Eggert
Vice President, FMC
Executive Director, Farmers’ Market Federation of New York
Fayetteville, New York
Leslie Schaller
Treasurer
Director, Appalachian Center for Economic Networks Athens, Ohio
Ruth White
Secretary, FMC
Programs Administrator, Minnesota Department of Agriculture
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Richard McCarthy
Founding President
Executive Director, marketumbrella.org
New Orleans, Lousiana
Copper Alvarez
Manager, Red Stick Farmers Market Executive Director, Big River Economic and Agricultural Development Alliance Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Fred Broughton
South Carolina Department of Agriculture
Columbia, South Carolina
Jim Bingen
Professor of Community, Food & Agriculture, Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan
Jeff Cole
Executive Director, Federation of Massachusetts Farmers Markets
Waltham, Massachusetts
Chris Curtis
Director, Neighborhood Farmers Market Alliance Seattle, Washington
Michael Hurwitz
Executive Director, Greenmarket (Council on the Environment of New York City) New York, New York
Janel Leatherman
Administrator, City of Dallas Farmers Market Dallas, Texas
Brigitte Moran
Executive Director, Marin Farmers Markets San Rafael, California
Bernadine (Bernie) Prince
Co-Director and Co-Founder, FRESHFARM Markets Washington, DC
Stacy Miller
Executive Director
P.O. Box 4089 | Martinsburg, WV 25402|
Phone: 304-263-6396
stacy@farmersmarketcoalition.org
Suzanne Briggs
Farmers Market SNAP Research Project Manager
Suzanne grew up on a wheat farm outside Great Falls, Montana. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree in Textile and Clothing from Iowa State University. She spent twenty years in the apparel industry in Oregon, including production management positions with Nike and Hanna Andersson; and acquired an MBA from [...]
Sarah Johnson
As an intern at FMC, Sarah performs research on farmers market characteristics and writes, publishes, and coordinates outreach communications such as the market beet.