GMA hires government affairs V-P., ATRI appoints board director, and more
ASSOCIATIONS/ORGANIZATIONS: Alliance for Food and Farming (AFF), Watsonville, Calif. Tim York, president of Markon Cooperative, was appointed chair, replacing Chris Zanobini, executive director of the California Pear Advisory Board, who is stepping down after two years of service. Rick Tomlinson, president of California Strawberry Commission, will serve as vice chair, secretary and treasurer.
American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI), Arlington, Va. Darren Hawkins, president and COO of YRC Worldwide, was appointed to the board of directors. Hawkins maintains more than 28 years of experience in the national LTL industry in both operations and sales roles. He began his career as a dock supervisor at what was then Yellow Freight, and rose through the ranks in a variety of sales and operations roles. Hawkins worked at Yellow Freight from 1991-2009 and Con-way Freight from 2009-2012 before returning to YRC Freight as president in 2013.
Feeding America, Chicago Carol Medlin joined as chief program officer, tasked with overseeing Feeding America's programs and partnerships, guiding the organization's strategic research agenda and creating a body of evidence and data to help shape policy and strategy for achieving a hunger-free America. Medlin is founder and principal of Praxis Social Impact Consulting, and previously worked with think tanks and philanthropic organizations, including The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as senior program officer, health economics and finance, global health program and as director, health at the Children's Investment Fund Foundation. She has also served as commissioner on the board of directors for the International Initiative on Impact Evaluation, on the advisory committee of the Global Health Investment Fund and as an affiliate faculty member for Department of Global Health and the University of Washington.