Michele Payn

Michele Payn is an expert on farm and food, known for bringing clarity and common sense to eating choices. Payn, armed with a lifetime on the farm, science, and compelling personal stories, is passionate about helping people find the truth in food and overcome misinformation.

She is an in-demand media resource whose work has appeared in USA Today, Food Insight, Food & Nutrition Magazine, Grist, and others as well as on NPR and CNN. As a Certified Speaking Professional, she has addressed hundreds of groups, such as Dietetic Associations, Universities, Genome Prairie, Michigan Vegetable Growers, Farm Credit Council, Apple Processors Association, and Farm Bureaus, helping thousands of people around the world translate farm to food. She writes from a small Indiana farm, where she enjoys showing registered Holsteins with her daughter, cheering on the Michigan State Spartans, and debating about science while cooking.

Payn is also the author of Food Truths from Farm to Table and No More Food Fights! and speaks around the world. Visit www.causematters.com or connect with @mpaynspeaker across social media.