WFAN’s executive director is Leigh Adcock, a Laurens, IA, native who grew up on a half-section family farm and has a degree in communications and journalism from the University of Northern Iowa. Her work experience includes television, radio, newspapers, magazines, public relations and various environmental and agricultural non-profit groups, most recently five years as the office manager of the Iowa Farmers Union.

Leigh lives north of Gilbert, IA, on five acres with her husband Ed and sons Richard and David. She keeps a flock of laying hens, three goats, and three cats.

Email Leigh.

515.460.2477

Lynn Heuss is WFAN’s Program Coordinator. Lynn has lived in Iowa since 1970.  She was a stay-at-home mother for 14 years and was active in church, community and school activities during that time.  She has three children: Jessica, a veterinarian living in Las Vegas, Alec, a recent ISU Business/Marketing graduate and Samantha, studying to be a legal assistant.  She received her bachelor's degree in religion from GrandView College in December, 2002 and has done some post-graduate work in Theology at the University of Notre Dame. 

In mid-2003, she was hired as the executive director of The Connection Café, a volunteer-operated free-meal program for the homeless, low-income and working poor of Des Moines.  She remained there until leaving to pursue work in the political arena, where, over the next several years, she staffed several political campaigns, state and national, in a variety of capacities.

Although she has been supportive of diversity all her life, her engagement in work that would support a diverse agricultural/food landscape in Iowa really began in May of 2009, when she was hired by the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) as a grassroots organizer.  She worked to champion mandatory funding for the farm to school program during the 2009 Child Nutrition Act re-authorization process.  Following the successful passage of this legislation, she went to work with the National Farm to School Network, as a member of the Midwest Regional Team.

She has also done work with the Buy Fresh, Buy Local campaign and the Iowa Food Cooperative.  She’s currently employed as the full-time Program Coordinator for WFAN and part-time with the Leopold Center working on the Local Food and Farm Plan.

Email Lynn.

515.201.9405