Bryan Endres studies the impact of law throughout food and bio-products supply chains and develops solutions to improve regulatory outcomes. He explores a range of issues, including legal structures to support farms engaged in direct marketing, small farm regulatory compliance, agrivoltaics, developing cooperative legal structures to better manage invasive plants, food labeling, and more recently, liability issues in agritourism.

Jonathan Coppess is on faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, director of the Gardner Agriculture Policy Program and author of THE FAULT LINES OF FARM POLICY: A LEGISLATIVE AND POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE FARM BILL. He has served as Chief Counsel and special counsel for the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, Administrator of the Farm Service Agency at USDA and Legislative Assistant to Senator Ben Nelson. Jonathan grew up on his family’s farm in Western Ohio, earned his Bachelors’ from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and his Juris Doctor from The George Washington University Law School in Washington, DC

Renata Endres is a Teaching Assistant Professor with joint appointments in the Department of Recreation, Sport, and Tourism in the College of Applied Health Sciences and the Department of Agricultural & Consumer Economics in the College of Agricultural, Consumer & Environmental Sciences. Renata earned her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Ljubljana and her current interests focus on agritourism’s role in rural development.

Min-Fang Wei is an Assistant Professor at National Taiwan University. Her research concentrates on food insecurity issues and the largest food assistance program in the U.S., the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). She also explores the policy implication of food insecurity in other high-income countries like Canada. Min-Fang is a UIUC alumnus with a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Applied Economics.

Sharon (Suiwen) Zou is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Recreation, Sport, and Tourism. Her research focuses on marketing and consumer behaviors in the context of rural tourism, agritourism, and nature-based tourism. Her research agenda aims at building economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable communities through tourism and leisure. She has expertise in mixed-methods research, including surveys, interviews, focus groups, and experimental design.