Laurie Langstraat, Director of Public Relations

Laurie began her employment with NCIS in September of 1990. She is responsible for all communications campaigns that are produced on behalf of the private crop insurance industry. These campaigns enhance the image and credibility of the crop insurance industry. She is also the Editor and Publisher of Crop Insurance TODAY, an educational and informational quarterly publication with a circulation of 18,000. For the last seven years, Laurie has supervised a summer intern placed through the Agriculture Future of America and has served as a judge for the National FFA Placement in Agricultural Proficiency Award and the Risk Management Strategies Writing Contest sponsored by the Risk Management Agency.

Laurie grew up in a small farming community in northeast South Dakota. She graduated from the University of Minnesota-Moorhead (formerly Moorhead State University) in 1990 with a B.S. in Mass Communications/ Public Relations.