Jacquelyn Prestegaard-Wilson is an Assistant Professor and Livestock Sustainability Specialist at Texas A&M AgriLife Extension in the Department of Animal Science. She attended University of Illinois (B.S., 2015), University of Missouri (M.S., 2017) and Virginia Tech (Ph.D., 2022). Her focus throughout her graduate career was ruminant nutrition, specifically, methods to optimize dietary crude protein fed to cattle in order to reduce feed costs and minimize their nitrogen excretion. This naturally led her to a career in sustainability, where she is able to use her passion for scientific communication to explore ruminants’ role in food, economic, and social systems. She enjoys hiking, kayaking, exploring, and playing guitar in her free time.