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Six college students are interning at Indiana Farm Bureau this summer.

The education and engagement team’s new youth engagement intern is Abby Funk. Funk will start her senior year at Purdue University next fall, where she will complete her bachelor’s degree in agricultural education with a minor in animal science. She is president of the Purdue Heritage Breeds Club, and for the past year she has served as an Indiana state 4-H student intern at Purdue. 

Hank Hehner attends law school at Indiana University–Bloomington and is interning with the legal team. After earning a bachelor’s degree in agricultural business at Purdue, Hehner farmed for two years and worked as a legal assistant at Clendening Johnson & Bohrer in Indianapolis. He also has qualified as an “experienced volunteer” at the law school’s Protective Order Project.

Kylee Marlin is interning with the public policy team. She just completed her sophomore year at Purdue, where she is majoring in agricultural economics with a concentration in pre-law and policy. She is currently involved with Sigma Alpha Professional Agricultural Sorority and the Agribusiness Club. She has interned at Johnson County Purdue Extension and now serves as an ag economics mentor.

Lilly Pryor, who is the education intern, attends Huntington University where she is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in agricultural education, agribusiness communications and public policy. She has worked in Huntington University’s social work department, and she serves as the Collegiate Farm Bureau president. Last summer she was an intern responsible for managing the Indiana Soybean Alliance Glass Barn.  

Kaleigh Shaw is interning with the Indiana Agricultural Law Foundation and is attending Indiana University’s McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis. She grew up working on the family farm in Kentucky before earning her bachelor’s in business administration at the University of Kentucky – Lexington. Her professional experience includes both an internship and the management development program at GEICO.

Lindsey Wessel is interning with the legal team. After growing up in the U.S. Virgin Islands, she earned a bachelor’s degree in agricultural business and economics at Auburn University and has just completed her second year at Mercer University School of Law in Macon, Georgia. She spent a semester as a research fellow studying crop insurance fraud and interned at a law firm last summer.