Megan Schilling grew up in western Iowa on a picturesque farm with alfalfa fields and fruit trees. She helped raise ducks, chickens, and geese; chased kittens through barns; and tended the flower and vegetable garden with her family.

Megan currently serves as Content Manager for an agtech startup, developing and implementing marketing content strategy.

​Previously, she worked as an agriculture journalist writing about conservation, whole-systems farming, digital solutions, and new technology for Successful Farming magazine and agriculture.com.

She is former Executive Director for the Iowa AgriTech Accelerator, a mentor-led program for agtech startups, and began her career managing internal communications for a financial technology startup in Ames, Iowa.

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Leadership and Recognition

Des Moines Art Center Art Noir Member Group President, February 2022-February 2024
Future Agricultural Communicators Committee Chair, June 2021-December 2022
International Federation of Agricultural Journalists Young Leaders Award, March 2022
Des Moines Art Center Art Noir Member Group Secretary, February 2020-February 2022
Andy Markwart Horizon Award, August 2021
AAEA Communications Award, 3rd place, team story "Soil Health Digest: 20 Questions Answered," August 2020
AAEA and Alltech Cultivating Young Ag Journalists Award, August 2019
Co-founder of Female Founders DSM, April 2018-June 2019

Speaking

Women in Agribusiness Summit Female Farmers Panel moderator, September 2019, 2021, and 2022
Commodity Classic Farmers and AgTech Panel moderator, February 2020
SXSW AgTech Shaping the Future of Agriculture Panel moderator, March 2019
FarmHer podcast guest, September 2018
Shift ICT Conference speaker, September 2018
UrbanFarmU Podcast guest, May 2018
Square One DSM Startup Stories Podcast guest, April 2018

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