Rod Bremby had a 30-year public sector career at the state and local levels. Rod served as Assistant City Manager of the City of Lawrence, KS from 1990-2000. From 2003-2011 he was Secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, the state’s largest and most complex regulatory agency with responsibilities for a varied portfolio of policies, as its name implies. After leaving Kansas, Bremby led Connecticut’s health and human service agency from 2011-2019.

Roger McCoy is a native Kansan who grew up on a farm near Spivey, Kansas, in Kingman County. He graduated from Attica High School in the mid-1950s and took his first job in the oil industry, driving a tank truck during the summer before he started at the Municipal University of Wichita, later renamed Wichita State University. Roger graduated with a bachelor’s degree in geology in 1959. McCoy’s entire professional career has been in the oil industry.

A native Kansan, Tracy Streeter grew up on a diversified family farm in Brown County, Kansas and graduated from Horton High School. He earned undergraduate degrees from Highland Community College and Missouri Western State University and a graduate degree from the University of Kansas. Streeter served eight years on the Valley Falls Board of Education and is a private pilot.

Wes Jackson was born in 1936 on a farm near Topeka, Kansas. After attending Kansas Wesleyan (B.A Biology, 1958), he studied botany (M.A. University of Kansas, 1960) and genetics (Ph.D. North Carolina State University, 1967). He was a professor of biology at Kansas Wesleyan and later established the Environmental Studies department at California State University, Sacramento, where he became a tenured full professor. He resigned that position in 1976 and returned to Kansas to found The Land Institute. Dr.