Gabriella "Ella" Johnson is pursuing a master’s degree in Animal Sciences focusing on sustainable beef systems at Auburn University. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Animal Sciences from Purdue University. Immediately after graduation, she started as the Feed Mill Assistant at Purdue’s ASREC for the spring 2023 semester.

In college, she interned with Cargill Protein as a Protein Sales Intern in Denver, Colorado, in the summer of 2022. She has experience in feed mill settings measuring and mixing both production and research livestock diets, wherein she was also responsible for record keeping of specific medications and additives. She also worked part-time as a lab animal care technician (primarily rodents) where her main duties focused on monitoring animal health and basic husbandry schedules. In Spring 2022, she started another position as a student manager for the Purdue Women’s Volleyball Team.

She believes it is important for the agriculture industry to have transparency and build trust with consumers. She believes it is the job of food producers and agriculture professionals to ethically produce quality animal products, and she wants to help educate the general public about the ins and outs of the industry.