Meet our team & Leadership

Carrie Vollmer-Sanders serves as Field to Market's President. Carrie is a 6th generation farmer, passionate about collaborating with forward-thinking farmers, convening diverse thought-leaders, and addressing environmental challenges while maintaining focus on business objectives. She received the White House Champion of Change Award in 2014 for her leadership in developing the 4R Nutrient Stewardship Certification Program while at The Nature Conservancy. She has an MBA from Purdue University and a master’s degree in Ag Economics from Michigan State University.

Carrie currently serves on the Edon Farmers Co-op, Soil and Water Conservation Society, and Cameron Health boards and the Greenhouse Gas Technical Assistance Provider and Third-Party Verifier Program Advisory Council. She previously served on the US EPA Science Advisory Board and worked for U.S. Farmers and Ranchers in Action, The Nature Conservancy, and Michigan Farm Bureau. Carrie and her husband have two active sons and own Grains and Greens, Inc., a corn, soybeans, and wheat farm in Indiana and Ohio with a focus on all three elements of the sustainability stool (people, planet, profit).

Paul Hishmeh serves as Field to Market’s Vice President of Science and Technology.  Paul oversees the intersection of Field to Market’s science and technology workstreams, ensuring successful implementation and delivery of their science-based sustainability framework that underlies the Fieldprint Platform and Continuous Improvement Accelerator.  Paul brings over 20 years of information technology and project/program management experience plus previous experience in the environmental engineering field.  Paul holds a B.S. in Agricultural Engineering from the University of Maryland.

Kelsey Billings currently serves as Field to Market’s Vice President of Innovation and Stakeholder Engagement. Prior to joining the team, Kelsey served as the Senior Director of Industry Affairs and Sustainability at the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives (NCFC). In that role, Kelsey oversaw the organization’s efforts on sustainability, climate change policy, director and young producer development, and policy issues directly impacting operations of NCFC members. She also served as the Treasurer of the NCFC CO-OP/PAC, where she managed the PAC’s finances and coordinated events with members of Congress who support NCFC’s mission.

In 2014, she received a Master of Business Administration from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University and a Master of Science with a concentration in Agricultural Economics from Purdue University. In 2012, Kelsey served as a Public Policy Fellow at The Fund for American Studies and is an alumnus of the International Institute for Political and Economic Systems, and the Institute on Business and Governmental Affairs with the same program. She earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Missouri in 2010.

Kelsey was born and raised in Bloomington, IL where she found her calling to agriculture through family farming and 4-H. She currently resides in Davidsonville, MD with her husband and three children.

Eric Coronel serves as Field to Market's Director of Science and Research. Prior to joining the team, Eric was the first full-time sustainability director for the American Peanut Council, where he oversaw the implementation of an industry-wide sustainability initiative for two growing seasons.

Previously, Eric served as Field to Market’s Senior Research Analyst from 2018-2021, where he completed many projects, including updating the crop benchmarks for the Fieldprint Platform 3.0 release, developing the 2021 National Indicators Report, and creating the data analyst training course.

Eric’s experience applying a Continuous Improvement Accelerator project at the field level has given him an enhanced perspective to bring more value to Field to Market members. Eric holds a B.S. and M.S. in Environmental Science and a Ph.D. in Crop Sciences from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Coralie Pierre is the Director of Programs and Partnerships at Field to Market. She is responsible for recruiting and onboarding new member organizations and increasing project enrollment in the Continuous Improvement Accelerator. Prior to joining Field to Market, Coralie worked for Nutrien Ag Solutions where she designed a sustainable agriculture action plan for the Western US region branches. She also has extensive experience in the private sector, embassies, and international non-governmental organizations in Haiti, including in public affairs, stakeholder relationship management, project design and management, research and data analysis, and identification of sustainable solutions. She is fluent in French, Haitian Creole, and has an intermediate level in Spanish. Coralie holds a MBA in Corporate Sustainability and a Graduate Certificate in Carbon Management from Colorado State University, as well as bachelor’s degrees in business management and law from Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Technologie and the State University of Haiti.

Laura G. Hess is the Manager of Finance at Field to Market. She previously was the CFAO at Island Press, a small nonprofit publisher focusing on environmental and social justice issues, including sustainable agriculture and food systems. There she developed forecasting and reporting systems for book and grant programs, as well as managed day-to-day financial activities. Laura holds a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Maryland, College Park and is pursuing a M.S. in Accounting and Financial Management at University of Maryland Global Campus.

Krista Vandetty is Field to Market's Senior Manager of Operations, responsible for ensuring the organization's operations run smoothly by working with staff to implement annual and long-range strategic plans, performing routine bookkeeping, managing human resource needs, and more. Prior to joining the team, she worked as the Operations Manager and Director of Development for a start-up educational equity nonprofit, 4th-Dimension Leaders where she ran the day-to-day operations, helped to launch equity-focused and capacity building programs, and fundraised for the sustainability of the organization. In addition, Krista taught English in Madrid, Spain and has worked on community development and research in the environmental nonprofit space. Krista holds a BA in International Studies with a concentration in Sustainable Development from Susquehanna University.

Dr. Austin Pearce is Field to Market's Staff Scientist. Prior to joining Field to Market, Austin served as a a postdoctoral scholar at North Carolina State University, working with collaborators across the U.S. to develop the Fertilizer Recommendation Support Tool. His research experiences during graduate school included assessing phosphorus transport in streams of a Utah watershed, managing an environmental testing lab, and conducting phosphorus balances on Virginia dairy farms to understand nutrient use sustainability. Austin is a member of the American Society of Agronomy and Soil Science Society of America and speaks Tagalog. He holds degrees in Crop and Soil Environmental Science from Virginia Tech and Environmental Science from Brigham Young University.

Sydney Mucha serves as Field to Market's Manager of Sustainability Projects. Prior to joining Field to Market, she worked in the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services' Division of Soil and Water Conservation for three years, holding two positions - AgWRAP Coordinator and Training Coordinator. In her time as AgWRAP Coordinator, Sydney worked to support the water storage, availability and efficiency needs of North Carolina’s agricultural community by managing their one million dollar cost share program. In her most recent role as Training Coordinator, Sydney helped implement a statewide conservation planning and best management practice training program for all soil and water conservation district staff. Prior to her time with the Division, Sydney worked as a Conservation Planning Manager at the Wildlife Habitat Council, focusing on corporate conservation, and as a Environmental Consultant for sustainability and compliance for the federal government in Washington, D.C. Sydney received her Master’s Degree in Environmental Science with a concentration in green and sustainable infrastructure from American University and her Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Science and Sustainability from Davis & Elkins College.

Jasmine Wibisono has several years of experience in both private and public sector roles in clean energy and sustainability. She began her career at a residential solar energy company where she gained experience with project monitoring and metrics reporting procedures that were applied to projects across Long Island and New York City. During her graduate studies, Jasmine focused on sustainability in food systems while earning a Master of Science in Climate Science and Policy. For her final graduate project, she worked alongside experts from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization to assess the sustainability and security of major global crops. Throughout her career, she has maintained a commitment to the impact of coalition building and stakeholder engagement to create more equitable, diverse, and inclusive spaces and communities.