Dewayne Goldmon (left) and Ricardo Ekmay
Dewayne Goldmon and Ricardo Ekmay have been named 2022-23 excellent alumni by the Dale Bumpers Faculty of Agricultural, Meals and Life Sciences on the U of A.
Goldmon is the Excellent Alumnus and Ekmay is the Bumpers Faculty Alumni Society’s Excellent Younger Alumnus.
They are going to be honored in separate occasions on campus throughout the spring semester, together with an awards ceremony and reception, interacting with college students in varied courses, lunch and/or conferences with choose scholar teams, dinner with faculty stakeholders and directors and different actions.
Ekmay can even symbolize the alumni society as a featured speaker at Bumpers Faculty’s spring graduation ceremony in Might.
Dewayne Goldmon
Goldmon, a farmer and native of Pine Bluff, has held varied positions since finishing his training in 1991. After working as a subject researcher with American Cyanamid for 4 years, he joined Monsanto in 1995 and labored in varied positions in know-how growth the place he performed and/or managed analysis and growth trials on most Southern row crops. He later held positions in authorities affairs and human sources, retiring because the outreach lead for Bayer Crop Sciences (after its acquisition of Monsanto in 2018) in 2019. In 2020, he served as government director of the Nationwide Black Growers Council, a corporation centered on enhancing the effectivity, productiveness and sustainability of Black row-crop farmers.
In 2021, he was named the USDA’s first senior adviser for racial justice and fairness, an appointment from President Biden that studies to USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack.
Goldmon has a protracted historical past of advocating for underserved farmers and served a number of phrases on the USDA’s Advisory Committee for Minority Farmers and in varied roles with Minorities in Agriculture, Pure Sources and Associated Sciences. On the U of A, he’s an energetic member and has served on the boards of the Black Alumni Society in addition to the Alumni Affiliation. Within the state, he has served on quite a few boards, together with the UAMS Basis, Arkansas 4-H Basis, Arkansas Valley Habitat for Humanity and Arkansas Affiliation for Listening to Impaired Kids. In Arkansas agriculture, he has served on the county and state technical committees of USDA’s Pure Sources Conservation Service and with the Arkansas Crop Safety Affiliation, in addition to on the Bumpers Faculty Dean’s Partnership Council, amongst many others.
Goldmon is a two-time U of A graduate, incomes bachelor’s (1985) and grasp’s (1987) levels in agronomy from what’s now Bumpers Faculty’s Division of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences. He earned a Ph.D. in agronomy from Iowa State College in 1991.
He and his spouse, Debra, have two kids: Camille, a two-time U of A graduate, and Dell.
Ricardo Ekmay
Ekmay is the senior vice chairman of vitamin and product growth for Arbiom Inc. in Durham, North Carolina. Arbiom, an agricultural know-how firm centered on different proteins, makes use of know-how to convey historically non-food supplies into the meals provide chain to fulfill society’s rising dietary wants.
Ekmay can also be an adjunct assistant professor on the U of A, the place he earned grasp’s (2008) and doctoral (2011) levels in poultry science.
Earlier than going to Arbiom in 2017, he spent a number of years as a analysis scientist with Dow AgroSciences, gaining expertise in product growth, regulatory affairs and science coverage advocacy.
Following a postdoctoral fellowship at Cornell College, the place he earned his bachelor’s (2004) diploma in animal science, Ekmay started his profession at Dow AgroSciences. He obtained the corporate’s early profession achievement award in 2014.
Ekmay’s experience in sustainable meals programs has helped Arbiom earn Triangle Enterprise Journal’s Life Sciences Award for Finest Agricultural Know-how Firm and Finest Early-Stage Product Growth Firm in 2018 and 2019, respectively.
Ekmay is chair of the American Feed Business Affiliation’s vitamin committee, is on the AFIA aquaculture committee, is an trade liaison to the American Society for Vitamin’s experimental animal vitamin curiosity group, a member of the American Society of Animal Science’s nominating committee and has served as a topic knowledgeable for committees and process forces for Crop Life America, Worldwide Life Science Institute, EuropaBio and the Worldwide Livestock Analysis Institute.
He’s additionally closely concerned with Latin-Hispanic advocacy packages. He serves because the chair of the board of administrators for the North Carolina Society of Hispanic Professionals and is on the ASAS Variety, Fairness and Inclusion Committee.
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