Nate Blum serves as the Chief Executive Officer of BlüMilo and Sorghum United. Sorghum United is an international NGO serving to advance education and markets development for sorghum and adjacent small grains. He is an expert on grain sorghum production and marketing, with a focus on value-added agriculture processing for sorghum-based products. Mr. Blum has represented the sorghum and millets industry in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Vietnam, Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy, Jordan, Great Britain, Scotland, Australia, Japan, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, and the United Nations FAO. He has also worked with international stakeholders in regard to the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, hosting an Independent Food Systems Summit (August 2021). Mr. Blum served as the Executive Director of the Nebraska Grain Sorghum Board and the Nebraska Sorghum Producers Association from 2019 to 2023. Mr. Blum served on the USDA Grains, Feed, and Oilseeds Ag Trade Advisory Committee (ATAC). The ATAC advised trade policy to the office of the US Trade Representative. He is an Alumnus of the University of Nebraska (Class of 2019), the Nebraska Leadership, Education, Agriculture, Development (LEAD) Program (Class XXXVI), and recently served as the Vice president of the Nebraska LEAD Alumni Association. Mr. Blum received a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Nebraska. He also enjoys volunteering for local non-profits and organizing community events in his free time. Jordan is a self-driven creative professional specializing in comic art, animation, and visual effects. Born and raised in Lincoln, NE, he traveled to Savannah, GA to earn an MFA in Sequential Arts from the Savannah College of Art and Design. From there, Jordan lived in Colorado to explore his love of nature while self-publishing comics. He eventually brought these skills back to Nebraska to teach digital art classes, paint murals, and lead animation teams for films like The Bell Affair and Animating History. Jordan continues to manage his own freelance art business, Jordan Scribbles LLC., to create projects like Sorgho Squad and also works as an Instructor of Design, Interactivity and Media Arts at Metropolitan Community College. Both capture his goals of bringing an eye-catching and entertaining flair to important messages while teaching creative tools to underserved communities so they can do the same.
