Leadership
2025–2026 Officers & Directors
Meet the leadership of the Food Distribution Research Society.
Executive Officers
Samuel Zapata
Texas A&M University
Maria Bampasidou
Texas A&M University
600 John Kimbrough Blvd, TAMU 2124
College Station, TX 77843
maria.bampasidou@ag.tamu.edu
Esendugue Greg Fonsah
University of Georgia
Jonathan Baros
Virginia Tech University
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Kimberly Morgan
University of Florida
Southwest Florida Research and Extension Center
2685 FL-29, Immokalee, FL 34142
Vice Presidents
Nathan Kemper
University of Arkansas
Rodney Holcomb
Oklahoma State University
143 Food & Agricultural Products Center
Stillwater, OK 74078
(405) 744-6272
Swagata "Ban" Banerjee
Kentucky State University
Linlin Fan
The Pennsylvania State University
208A Armsby Building
University Park, PA 16802
lpf5158@psu.edu
Hannah Shear
Oklahoma State University
Shuoli Zhao
University of Kentucky
Martha Montoya
AgTools
Logan Moss
National Association of State Departments of Agriculture
Kimberly Morgan
University of Florida
Southwest Florida Research and Extension Center
2685 FL-29, Immokalee, FL 34142
Directors
Lixia H. Lambert
Oklahoma State University
Jacqueline Nicole Yenerall
University of Tennessee
Obed Quaicoe
North Carolina A&T State University
Courtney Long
Iowa State University
Alexis Villacis
The Ohio State University
Ryan Loy
University of Arkansas
Felipe Peguero
Texas A&M University
Editors, Journal of Food Distribution Research
Brandon McFadden
Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness
University of Arkansas
mcfadden@uark.edu
Jada Thompson
Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness
University of Arkansas
jt074@uark.edu