Program Leadership

Jim Harkness
President
(612) 870-3403  jharkness@iatp.org
Harkness joined IATP in July 2006. Previously he served as Executive Director of the World Wildlife Fund in China from 1999-2005, where he expanded the organization’s profile from a strict focus on conservation of biodiversity to also addressing the consequences of China’s economic growth on a broader sustainable development agenda. From 1995–1999, Harkness worked as the Ford Foundation’s Environment and Development Program Officer for China. Harkness has written and spoken frequently on China and sustainable development, and has served as an adviser for the World Bank and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. Harkness grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He’s a graduate of the University of Wisconsin where he majored in Asian Studies. He received his graduate degree in Development Sociology from Cornell University.

Corinne Rafferty
Vice President for Programs and Planning
(612) 870-3435  crafferty@iatp.org
Rafferty joined IATP in early 2005 to help with program management and coordination. A lawyer by training, Rafferty has devoted her working life to various social justice organizations in San Francisco, New York and the Twin Cities. She was co-founder and co-director of Nicaragua Exchange, which mobilized opposition to U.S. funding of the contras in the mid-1980s. She worked for the North American Congress on Latin America, the National Lawyers Guild and the Institute for Media Analysis before serving as a program officer for the Rockefeller Family Fund and the Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock. She moved to Minnesota in 1994, and has worked for the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and more recently, Farmers' Legal Action Group, where she served as executive director. Rafferty has a B.A. in English from Yale University and a law degree from Hastings College of the Law (University of California).

Trade and Global Governance

Alexandra Spieldoch
Director
(612) 870-3419 aspieldoch@iatp.org
Alexandra Spieldoch is the Director of the Trade and Global Governance Program at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. The TGG team is focused on reforming agriculture and trade policy and rebalancing global norms to support the Right to Food, international food safety, intellectual property rights and biodiversity, global water justice and women's rights. Ms. Spieldoch has been engaged in WTO and regional trade advocacy since 1999. She has published various research and popular education materials on trade negotiations at the WTO and in the Americas region from a human rights and development perspective.

Formerly, she co-directed the Gender, Trade and Development (GTD) Project at the Center of Concern and coordinated the secretariat for the International Gender and Trade Network (IGTN) based out of Washington, D.C. She is a member of the Alliance for Responsible Trade and active in the Hemispheric Social Alliance. She studied at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina as well as the University of Caen in Normandy, France. Ms. Spieldoch received an M.A. in International Policy from the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Her B.A. is from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri with a major in French literature.

Sophia Murphy
Senior Advisor
smurphy@iatp.org
Murphy leads IATP's work on the World Trade Organization, focused on agricultural trade rules, U.S. trade and agriculture policy and the interests of developing countries in the multilateral trade system. Murphy has published many reports and articles, including analysis of the effects of international trade rules on development and food security, the impact of corporate concentration in the global food system and, most recently, a critique of U.S. food aid programs. Sophia has worked with IATP's Trade and Agriculture team since 1997. She joined the Institute from Geneva, where she had worked for two years with the United Nations Nongovernmental Liaison Service. Before that, she worked as a policy officer with the Canadian Council for International Cooperation in Ottawa. Sophia has a degree in politics, philosophy and economics from Oxford University and a master's from the London School of Economics.

Dr. Steve Suppan
Senior Policy Analyst
(612) 870-3413  ssuppan@iatp.org
Steve Suppan has been Director of Research since 1998. Suppan began to work at IATP in 1994 as a translator, editor, bulletin writer and program officer for western hemispheric trade policy. Suppan is IATP's liaison to several governmental and intergovernmental organizations. From 1998 to 2003, he was IATP's liaison to the Trade and Environnment Policy Advisory Committee of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Since 2002, he has been the U.S. co-chair of the trade working group of the TransAtlantic Consumers Dialogue. Since 2000 he has been IATP's main liaison to Consumers International and has served on several Consumers International delegations to the Codex Alimentarius Commission and to Codex committees. He has written extensively on food safety policy and on agricultural trade policy. Most recently, he has written a paper on structural reform in the Codex Alimentarius Commission for CI's Decision Making in the Global Market project. Suppan has also represented IATP at meetings of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development, the United Nations Development Program, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, and was the NGO liaison to the U.S. government for the World Food Summit +5. He serves on the board of the Community Nutrition Institute.

Suppan has a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Minnesota and studied philosophy at the University of Vienna. Prior to coming to IATP, he was an assistant professor in the department of Romance languages at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Alexandra Strickner
Director, Global Dialogue Project
+43 (1) 317 40 14  astrickner@iatp.org
Strickner is Director of a new IATP project, “Building a new social contract for agriculture and food: Establishing a global dialogue on U.S. and EU agricultural policy reforms.” The project supports a new framework for public regulation and investment in agriculture, particularly by the U.S. and the EU. Strickner formerly headed IATP's Trade Information Project in Geneva from 2003 to 2006. She monitored World Trade Organization negotiations with a focus on agriculture and services, and helped trade-focused networks better understand the WTO's negotiation process. Strickner edited "Geneva Update" and developed a series of IATP publications on the link between services negotiations and other sectors. Before joining IATP, Strickner worked for five years as senior expert and policy adviser at the Austrian Foundation for Development Research in Vienna, covering issues such as educational cooperation and poverty reduction. She holds a masters degree in political economy with a specialization on development economics and regional integration from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration.

R. Dennis Olson
Senior Policy Analyst
(612) 870-3412  dolson@iatp.org
R. Dennis Olson is the Director of IATP's Trade and Agriculture Project, which advocates for farmers and peasants both in the U.S., and around the world, within the context of global trade debates. He works on U.S. agricultural trade policy among domestic and international rural advocacy and other social justice networks. In 2005, Olson worked on behalf of IATP to oppose passage of the Central American Free Trade Agreement, and published a paper, Sweet or Sour: The U.S. Sugar Program and Threats Posed by the Dominican Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement. Olson advocates for the rights of farmers in issues related to genetically engineered crops. In 2005 he published an article, "Hard Red Spring Wheat at a Genetic Crossroad: Rural Prosperity or Corporate Hegemony?" on his experiences in a successful effort by North American wheat farmers and their allies to stop Monsanto's efforts to introduce the first ever variety of genetically engineered wheat. The University of Wisconsin Press published the article as a chapter in the book, Controversies in Science and Technology From Maize to Menopause. Before coming to IATP, Olson worked as a community organizer for seventeen years with grassroots farmer and environmental organizations in North Dakota and Montana on agricultural, environmental and other social justice issues. In 1994, he spent three months in the former Soviet Union networking with environmental and agricultural activist organizations. Olson graduated from the University of Montana in 1983 with a combined degree of history/political science and a minor in Russian.

Shiney Varghese
Senior Policy Analyst
(612) 870-3471  svarghese@iatp.org
Shiney Varghese leads our work on global water policy. The current water crisis, its impact on water and food security and possible local solutions that emphasize equity, environmental justice and sustainability concerns are her focus. In her current work she focuses on the implications of GATS/WTO, water sector liberalization, and industrial agriculture for people's access to water. Since 2001 she has been the co-chair of the UNCSD fresh water caucus, the primary civil society voice on water at the UN Commission on Sustainable Development. Shiney has been working with IATP since 2001. Before moving to United States in 1998, she worked in India on social and environmental issues for over a decade with indigenous groups, civil society organizations and international groups such as Oxfam. She has presented and published works on environment, gender, and human rights. Shiney grew up on a farm in South Indian state of Kerala, and after high school moved to Gujarat. She is a graduate of Institute of Rural Management, India, and has a master's in development from the Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands. Shiney was a visiting fellow at the agrarian studies program at Yale University, New Haven in 1997-98.

Trade Information Project, Geneva

Carin Smaller
Director, Trade Information Project
+41 (22) 789 0734  csmaller@iatp.org
Smaller is the project officer for the Trade Information Project, where she monitors WTO negotiations, writes "Geneva Update," and provides information and analysis to developing country trade negotiators and civil society groups working on trade. Carin is also developing alternative approaches to agriculture trade using a human rights approach and has written a policy paper, Planting the Rights Seed: A Human Rights Perspective on Agriculture Trade and the WTO. Prior to working with IATP, Smaller worked with a trade and human rights NGO, 3D - Trade - Human Rights -Equitable Economy. she also worked on development projects for the UNDP in Windhoek, Namibia, the Australian Aid Agency for International Development (AusAID) and the German Development Service in Nepal. She has a bachelor of laws and bachelor of arts in political science and comparative development from the University of New South Wales (Australia).

Anne Laure Constantin
TIP Project Officer
+41 (22) 789 0724 aconstantin@iatp.org
Constantin joined IATP's Trade Information Project in Geneva in July 2006. Constantin comes to IATP from the French Committee for International Solidarity where she advocated on international agriculture and trade issues. Prior to that she worked with Association pour la Création de la Fondation René Dumont (Association for the Creation of the René Dumont Foundation) in Paris, and the World Organization Against Torture in Geneva. She has a masters degree in International Relations from La Sorbonne University in France.

Environment and Agriculture

Mark Muller
Director
(612) 870-3420  mmuller@iatp.org
Since starting at IATP in 1997, Muller has worked on a wide variety of issues, including agricultural diversification, nutrient management, agricultural transportation, regional food systems and renewable energy production. He has been involved in both regional project-based efforts and national policy development. He has had opinion pieces on agricultural policy appear in newspapers throughout the Midwest. Muller has a B.A. in physics from the State University of New York at Geneseo and a M.S. in environmental engineering from Manhattan College. Prior to joining IATP, Muller worked as an environmental engineer and high school science teacher.

Dr. Dennis Keeney
Senior Fellow
(515) 232-1531  drkeeney@iastate.edu
Keeney was the first director of the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University. He retired in 2000, and is professor emeritus of Agronomy and Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering at Iowa State University. Keeney grew up on a family dairy farm near Runnells, Iowa, and obtained a B.S. in agronomy from Iowa State University, a M.S. in soil science from The University of Wisconsin, Madison and a Ph.D. in agronomy and biochemistry from Iowa State University. He was a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin in soils and water chemistry before coming to Iowa State in 1988. He has pioneered research and outreach on agricultural issues related to sustainability, land resource use, rural community development and water quality. Keeney has published over 140 refereed papers on soil and water quality research, and served on numerous state, federal and international scientific committees and task forces. He also served as president of the American Society of Agronomy and the Soil Science of America. He has been a Senior fellow at IATP since 2000 and also is a senior fellow in the Department of Soil, air and water in the College of Agriculture, Food, and Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota.

Heather Schoonover
Program Associate
(612) 870-3450  hschoonover@iatp.org
Schoonover's work at IATP focuses on farm policy and public health, hypoxia and Mississippi River navigation. She also helps administer the Food and Society Policy Fellows program. Prior to joining IATP, Schoonover worked as a researcher for Audubon's Upper Mississippi River Campaign and as a program coordinator for Hamline University's Center for Global Environmental Education. She holds both an M.S. and a B.S. in earth systems—an interdisciplinary program integrating the environmental, earth, natural and social sciences—from Stanford University.

China Initiative

Claudia Nanninga
Policy Analyst
(612) 870-3436 cnanninga@iatp.org
Nanninga joined IATP in November 2006. She is responsible for coordinating all activities related to IATP's China Initiative. Prior to joining IATP, she lived in China for four years where she worked with various Chinese NGOs to promote environmental awareness. During her time there, she served as a German CIM Junior Expert in charge of capacity building at Global Village of Beijing, a Chinese environmental NGO. She has a postgraduate degree in economics from International School of Management in Dortmund, Germany, and a bachelor of science in environmental studies from the Open University in England.

Rural Communities

Jim Kleinschmit
Director
(612) 870-3430  jim@iatp.org
Kleinschmit's work focuses on promoting working landscapes and sustainable rural development in both the U.S. and abroad. Current projects include: working with farmers and other stakeholders to establish sustainable crop production standards and markets in the Midwest; promoting and facilitating renewable energy and sustainable bioindustrial development projects; and helping increase understanding of the relationship of agriculture to surface and ground water management in the Great Lakes Basin. He has a M.A. from the Jackson School of International Studies of the University of Washington, and a B.A. in European history and Russian studies from St. Olaf College, Minnesota. Kleinschmit was raised on and is still active in the operation of his family's farm in Nebraska. He worked on rural development in the Baltics and Russia and in 1995 began working as the coordinator for the IATP's International Fellows Program, which informed officials from the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe about international trade and agriculture issues. In 1996, he joined the Environment and Agriculture Program, focusing on nutrient and watershed management.

Amy Stratton
Rural Communities Organizer
(612) 870-3433 astratton@iatp.org
Stratton joined IATP in fall of 2006 as Rural Communities Organizer. Her rural small-town roots link well to her position exploring viable options with rural Midwestern communities. Amy received her B.S. in natural resources management from Colorado State University, Fort Collins. Since then, she has held positions as NGO and government staff on natural resource and community development projects in South Dakota, Oregon and Minnesota. Prior to joining the IATP team, Stratton worked with Resource Conservation and Development Councils in Minnesota. Her work focuses on connecting rural communities to opportunities to improve economics, environment and quality of life.

Garat Ibrahim
Rural Communities Organizer
(612) 870-3442 gibrahim@iatp.org
Garat Ibrahim joined IATP in January 2008 as a Rural Community Organizer. Garat previously worked four years as a community organizer for the Lexington Hamline Community Council in Saint Paul. At the Council, Garat worked with neighborhood residents on housing, education, social services, immigration and bridging the gap between law enforcement and the Somali community. Prior to that, Garat worked with Lutheran Social Services for five years to develop partnerships and conduct outreach with ethnic groups, employers and service providers to secure affordable housing and employment for refugees. Garat was born in Somalia and has spent eight years in Minnesota. His parents are farmers in the southern region of Somalia. Garat received his BA in anthropology from Nairobi University. At IATP, Garat will work with African refugees in Midwest rural communities to improve their standard of living and quality of life.

Forestry

Don Arnosti
Director
(612) 870-3460  darnosti@iatp.org
Over the past 15 years, Don has held a number of leadership positions with Minnesota conservation organizations. Most recently he served as the Water Campaign Coordinator for the Minnesota Environmental Partnership, an association of more than 80 large and small non-profit conservation organizations. Prior to that he served for ten years as Executive Director of the National Audubon Society's Minnesota office. Audubon Minnesota, under Don's leadership, became involved in the earliest efforts to tailor Forest Stewardship Council standards to the Great Lakes region and were early supporters of the first public lands certifications in the region in Aitkin County.

Gigi La Budde
Forest Ecologist
(608) 588-2048  bbf.gigi@earthlink.net
La Budde serves as education coordinator and ecologist for the Community Forestry Resource Center, where she works with forest landowner groups, resource managers, loggers and farmers in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa. She also teaches courses for the Forest Industry Safety and Training Alliance of Wisconsin and is involved with the Woodland School, a project of the Aldo Leopold Foundation, as an instructor and member of the steering committee. She received her B.A. and M.S. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Gigi is the owner of Bison Belly Futures, an ecological restoration consulting business serving the Driftless area, an organic Goldenseal grower and a volunteer land steward for the Nature Conservancy.

Food and Health

Dr. David Wallinga
Director
(612) 870-3418  dwallinga@iatp.org
David Wallinga, MD, MPA, is Director of the Food and Health Program. Wallinga applies a systems perspective to the intersection of public health, agriculture, food and the environment. His expertise includes the impacts of food contamination and the means of food production on human health, including impacts on obesity and ecological health impacts from the inappropriate use of antibiotics and arsenic in livestock and poultry. For several years, Wallinga also has researched and advocated around the impacts on fetuses, children and adults of early-life exposures to neurotoxins—including many found in fish and other foods—on brain and nervous system function in children and adults, developing brains and other organs in fetuses and children. He authored Playing Chicken: Avoiding Arsenic in Your Meat, Poultry on Antibiotics: Hazards to Human Health and Putting Children First: Making Pesticide Levels in Food Safer for Infants and Children. He is a co-author of In Harm's Way: Toxic Threats to Child Development and co-developer of the Pediatric Environmental Health Toolkit. He received a medical degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School, a masters degree from Princeton University and a bachelors from Dartmouth College.

Kathleen Schuler
Senior Associate
(612) 870-3468  kschuler@iatp.org
Schuler's focus is on protecting children, among other vulnerable populations, from environmental toxins in food. She has developed a Smart Fish Guide and online fish calculator to educate parents and women of childbearing age about eating safer fish and seafood lower in mercury and PCBs. She also served as the project coordinator for Reducing Pesticides in Minnesota Schools Pilot Project. Schuler has a master of public health degree from the University of Minnesota. As a Bush Leadership Fellow in environmental health, she also studied at Boston University and interned with the Center for Health, Environment and Justice. Schuler is an active member of both the Minnesota and American Public Health Associations.

Marie Kulick
Senior Associate
(612) 870-3422  marie@iatp.org
Kulick joined the Food and Health team in 2004. A key focus of her work is on preventing pollution of the food chain by among other things promoting the use of safer materials and building support for an agricultural food system that reflects health considerations. In 2005, she authored Healthy Food, Healthy Hospitals, Healthy Communities, a report that highlights the successful efforts of health care facilities to improve access to fresh, sustainably produced food and identifies strategies for overcoming potential hurdles such as tight budgets and restrictive vendor contracts. Marie has a B.A. in communications from McDaniel College and a master of studies in environmental law from Vermont Law School. Prior to IATP, Kulick worked for the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Environmental Fund for Maryland and Clean Water Action.

Lindsay Dahl
Project Coordinator, Healthy Legacy Campaign
(612) 870-3458  ldahl@iatp.org
Dahl recently worked as the Public Policy Advocate for the Minnesota Public Interest Research Group, where she played an integral role passing some of the nations leading clean energy legislation during the 2007 session. In 2005, Dahl participated in the United Nations Climate Change Conference, leading youth lobbying efforts and has trained hundreds of people on effective messaging related to global warming. Dahl has also worked with Fresh Energy, a clean energy policy organization and the nations leading environmental education program, the Wisconsin Center for Environmental Education. Dahl has extensive coalition building experience, grassroots and grasstops organizing success, and environmental policy expertise in the state of Minnesota. Dahl has a degree in Political Science and Environmental Science from St. Olaf College.

Local Foods

JoAnne Berkenkamp
Director
(612) 870-3410 jberkenkamp@iatp.org

JoAnne Berkenkamp joined IATP this October as Program Director for Local Foods. This new program reflects IATP's commitment to local, sustainable food systems and will range in scope from local to national and international. JoAnne will work with fellow IATP staff to connect local food efforts with IATP's activity in the health, rural development, trade and environmental arenas.

For the past 11 years, JoAnne has led an independent consulting practice working with non-profits, food businesses and foundations across the United States. Her consulting work focused on market development for locally and sustainably grown food and the creation of farmer-owned businesses. She has worked extensively in the program evaluation arena, leading efforts to improve the impact and shared learning of numerous food- and agriculture-related programs. Previously, she worked for the World Wildlife Fund in Washington, D.C. and with Catholic Relief Services at various locations in Asia, Africa and Latin America. She started her career in the corporate finance world. JoAnne has a Masters in Public Policy degree from Harvard University, and a Bachelors degree in Finance from the University of Illinois.

JoAnne currently serves on the board of directors for the St. Paul natural foods grocery cooperative, Mississippi Market, as well as the Minnesota Grown program at the State Department of Agriculture. She is past president of the board at the Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture at the University of Minnesota.

Development

Kate Hoff
Vice President for Development
(612) 870-3404  khoff@iatp.org
Hoff came to IATP in 1993 as a temp—and stayed. Hoff is responsible for overseeing and coordinating all aspects of foundation, individual and government support and special events. Her work includes grant writing, grassroots fundraising and income generating projects for IATP. Hoff has a B.A. in sociology from Augsburg College in Minneapolis and an M.A. in public administration from Hamline University in St. Paul, emphasizing nonprofit management. Hoff grew up on a hobby farm in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, and reigned as the 1985 Town and Country Saddle Club Queen.

Eric Christopher
Grants Manager
(612) 870-3478  echristopher@iatp.org
Christopher's work includes research, preparation and management of grants. He also works on aspects of IATP's individual donor campaign. Eric holds a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Minnesota.

Jacob Wascalus
Development Associate
(612) 870-3411 jwascalus@iatp.org
Wascalus's work includes researching and preparing grants. Prior to joining IATP, he was a freelance copy editor, graphic designer and writer. He holds a bachelor's degree in English from James Madison University.

Finance and Administration

Ricki McMillan
Vice President for Finance and Operations
(612) 870-3451  rmcmillan@iatp.org
McMillan is responsible for the finances of IATP. Ricki has been with IATP since 1992. She received a bachelor's degree in biology from the University of Kansas.

Candace Falk
Finance Associate
(612) 870-3453  cfalk@iatp.org
Falk has been the assistant to the Finance Director since the year 2000. Her responsibilities include accounts payable, accounts receivable, human resources, managing the telephone and voicemail systems and the postage meter. She also coordinates the IATP TravelBetter campaign annually.

Linda Vieira
Building Manager
(612) 870-3455 lvieira@iatp.org
Vieira is responsible for the well being of our 100 year old office building. She also assists several programs with their administrative tasks. She brings a diverse background to her job, which most recently include working in a small public library specializing in fire, EMS and safety issues and operating her own small business, making and selling wool oven mitts. Vieira has a bachelor of science degree in sociology from the University of Minnesota.

Allison Page
Administrative Assistant
(612) 870-3456 apage@iatp.org
Page's work includes answering the phones, schedule and logistics coordination and general administrative assistant duties. She holds a bachelor's degree in music (piano), French and a minor in women's studies from the University of Iowa. Outside the office, she freelances as a musician and writes a lot of letters.

Patti Landres
Librarian
(612) 870-3473 plandres@iatp.org
All of the paper, books, research material and original new publications produced by IATP from all of the programs eventually end up on Landres' desk. Landres sorts and organizes all of IATP's documents and archives. She has a degree in fine arts with an emphasis on painting.

Communications and Information Technology

Dale Wiehoff
Vice President for Communications and IT
(612) 870-3401  dwiehoff@iatp.org
Wiehoff grew up in St.Cloud, Minnesota. He attended St. Cloud Technical High School and spent much of his youth fishing in the Mississippi River and seining minnows for his grandfather's bait shop. He moved to Minneapolis after high school and between a job on the railroad, protesting the war and working at co-op groceries, dreamed of owning a farm. In 1970 he bought his first farm with friends in Wisconsin and in 1977 bought his own farm not far away. He farmed until 1985, keeping cattle, dairy cows, bees and sheep. Farming provided his first insights into the worlds of economics, high finance and reckless gambling. In 1977 he joined the board of the US Farmers Association and was introduced to the old populist traditions and values, as well as what made a good farm program. In 1985, Wiehoff moved to New York and over the next decade worked for a number of national nonprofit organizations. In 1994 he had the opportunity to return to Minnesota to work for IATP in what became known as Information Technology. In 1999 he was promoted to Vice President of Communications and remains responsible for overseeing the internal and external communications systems, publications, web sites, and media relations for IATP.

Ben Lilliston
Communications Director
(612) 870-3416  blilliston@iatp.org
Lilliston works on media outreach and the production of publications. He has a bachelor of philosophy degree from University of Miami (Ohio). He is the former Associate Editor for the Corporate Crime Reporter, a frequently published writer, co-author of the book Genetically Engineered Foods: A Guide for Consumers (Avalon), and former associate at the Chicago environmental public relations firm Sustain.

Kitwana Ford
Information Technology Director
(612) 870-3428  kford@iatp.org
With over 12 years of experience in the computer industry, Ford contributes to IATP as the Director of Information Technology. Her primary responsibility is to provide strategic and operational direction for planning, designing and implementing IATP's information technology infrastructure. Her job includes developing strategies to meet the needs of the organization and overseeing and setting guidance and standards for IT. Kitwana holds a bachelor of arts in business management/computer information systems from Alverno College and a masters of computer information systems from the University of Phoenix.

Tyson Acker
Senior Programmer
(612) 870-3425  tacker@iatp.org
Acker is responsible for application development, infrastructure and the upkeep of IATP's Web sites, servers and local area network. Though no stranger to computers as a student, Acker first encountered IATP while earning a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Gustavus Adolphus College. He joined the team as an intern in 2000 and has been a full-time staffer since 2001. Outside the office, Acker enjoys nothing more than crashing bicycles all over the Twin Cities metro area at all times of year.