Lorie Hailey is director of communications at Alltech, where she guides a global team of communications professionals as they develop content and messaging that advances Alltech’s purpose of Working Together for a Planet of Plenty™. Lorie previously led Alltech’s copyediting team and managed the communications team’s editorial content strategy.

Before joining Alltech, she worked for 10 years as an editor and writer at The Lane Report, a Kentucky business news magazine. Prior to The Lane Report, she spent 16 years in community journalism, most recently as editor of the Richmond Register, a daily newspaper in Richmond, Kentucky. 

Lorie is passionate about storytelling and dedicated to raising awareness of the role agriculture plays in nourishing the world and preserving the planet. She has led several Alltech thought leadership projects, including serving as the primary author and editor of the 2022 Alltech Sustainability Report.

She is a member of ACES: The Society for Editing and the Public Relations Society of America. Lorie lives in Lexington, Kentucky, with her husband, Steve, and their son, Evan.