Scott Corrin
Interim Executive Director
Senior Manager, Programs and Finance
517-432-0712

Scott Corrin is the Programs Administrator for MIFFS.  He works with Program Managers ensuring that MIFFS is working towards the goals of their respective programs while keeping within budget.  Scott is also the conference coordinator for the Michigan Family Farms Conference which is held in January. 

Scott has over ten years of association management experience, mainly with agriculture, and was a manager for Tractor Supply Company.  He also can be seen working on his family’s strawberry farm when he is not at MIFFS.  During his spare time, Scott enjoys biking, fishing, boating, and attending sporting events of his alma mater, Michigan State.

Emily (Buckham) Beutel
Communications Manager
517-432-0712

Emily Beutel began working with MIFFS as an intern in 2004 and is now the MIFFS Communications Specialist.  She graduated from Michigan State University in 2006 with a Bachelor’s degree in Agricultural and Natural Resources Communications and was involved throughout college in numerous clubs, groups and activities focused around agriculture and food systems.

Emily grew up on a family farm in Kalamazoo raising sheep and cattle.  Her passions are for her family, agriculture and writing, so MIFFS communications is a perfect fit for her, blending what she loves to do into one great position for a great organization.  She is excited to help family farmers find better opportunities and keep farming and hopes to one day continue her family tradition and legacy of raising sheep on her own farm.

Dru Montri
Michigan Farmers Market Association Project Manager
517-432-3381

Dru Montri works as the project manager of the Michigan Farmers’ Market Association (MIFMA).  Dru has a background in horticulture and has both work and volunteer experience in community food system project development, coordination, and promotion.  She is a graduate of Michigan State University and continued her education at Penn State University where her graduate research focused on production and marketing techniques to aid small acreage growers.  While in Pennsylvania, Dru acted as the Centre County “Buy Fresh Buy Local” coordinator.  She worked to increase awareness of local food through the promotion of area producers and farmers’ markets. 

Dru is excited to have returned to Michigan, a place she has always considered home, and looks forward to building partnerships with farmers’ markets and stakeholders across the state.   

Morse Brown
Multicultural Farmers Program Manager
269-208-1443

Morse Brown is the project manager for the MIFFS Multicultural Farmers Program.  Morse retired from Michigan State University Extension (MSUE) in 2002 where he spent 17 years as County Extension Director for Wayne County.  Morse has 20 years of federal experience with the Soil Conservation Service, now (USDA NRCS) where he served as a soil conservationist and district conservationist reaching the level of GS-12 District Conservationist.  His professional focus was on agricultural and natural resources with a strong interest in land use planning.   

As County Extension Director, he supervised 50-55 employees in the Wayne County MSUE office.  He has worked with urban consumer groups seeking ethnic foods, he has assisted African American farmers venture into the organic market. Brown also served as the Marketing Chair for Community to Enhance Resources for Under-served Farmers (CERUF).  He graduated from Alcorn State University in 1965 with a degree in Agriculture Education and pursued graduate work at Michigan State University.  He and his wife, Arma, have one son, Khary.

Barbara Norman
Multicultural Farmers Program Assistant
269-208-4588

Barbara Norman is the program assistant for the MIFFS Multicultural Farmers Program. She and her family own and operate a blueberry farm in Covert, Michigan where she annually hosts the Friends and Family Farms Field Day each summer.

She works with multicultural farmers throughout the state of Michigan to improve their network of resources and alert them to great opportunities for sustainable family farmers.

Filiberto Villa
Multicultural Farmers Program Spanish-Speaking Assistant
269-208-4588

Filiberto Villa joined the MIFFS team in 2009 as the Multicultural Farmers Program Spanish-Speaking Assistant to reach out to Hispanic farming communities around the state, especially in southwest Michigan. Prior to his work with MIFFS, he spent two years doing outreach with MSU Extension, the MSU Product Center for Agriculture and Natural Resources and the Integrated Pest Management program.

He makes a lot of farm visits to talk about production and marketing with farmers and is helping many of them tap into new markets for their products. He also recruits them for different trainings, workshops and conferences around Southwest Michigan.