Rod Snyder Joins Sand County Foundation Board
May 13, 2025
MADISON, Wis. – Rod Snyder of West Virginia has joined the board of directors of the Sand County Foundation, a national nonprofit working at the intersection of agriculture and environmental improvement.
Snyder is a principal and founder of Junction Strategies, a consulting firm specializing in agriculture, climate, and environmental policy, as well as supply chain sustainability initiatives. He served in the Biden-Harris Administration from 2021 to 2024 as Senior Advisor for Agriculture to the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In March 2024, he was named as the first-ever director of EPA’s newly established Office of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.
“We are thrilled to bring Rod’s extensive conservation and agricultural leadership and perspective to our board,” said Kevin McAleese, Sand County Foundation President and CEO.
Snyder’s professional experience includes serving from 2014 to 2021as president of Field to Market: The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture, the largest multi-stakeholder initiative working to advance the sustainability of commodity crop farming in the United States. In 2015, he co-founded the Sustainable Agriculture Summit, which has grown to be the largest and most prominent annual sustainable agriculture conference in North America.
Earlier in his career, Snyder held government affairs positions with the National Corn Growers Association and CropLife America. He resides on his family farm in Shenandoah Junction, West Virginia.
SAND COUNTY FOUNDATION inspires and empowers farmers, ranchers, and forestland owners to ethically care for the land so future generations have clean and abundant water, healthy soil, and plentiful wildlife habitat. www.sandcountyfoundation.org