JoBeth Delawder is a Presidential Honors graduate from West Virginia University, holding a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture Business and Natural Resource Management. She has extensive experience in agriculture and politics, having interned at the West Virginia Department of Agriculture, instructed at the Cacapon Institute, and served in various roles including Fundraising Assistant for Manchin for US Senate, Events Coordinator for the West Virginia Democratic Party, State Assistant and Outreach Representative for US Senator Joe Manchin III, Staff Assistant for the US Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, and Legislative Correspondent for US Senator Ben Ray Luján, focusing on issues related to animals, agriculture, energy, environment, science, tourism, and trade. Currently, she is the Acting Climate Advisor for the Rural Business-Cooperative Service working on implementation of President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). JoBeth also assists on her family’s sixth-generation farm in the Potomac Highlands of West Virginia, and is devoted to caring for the future of agriculture and the environment.