Barbara R. Spangler joined the USDA APHIS Plant Protection and Quarantine Phytosanitary Issues Management team as a Trade Director for South America and the Caribbean in September 2016. She came to APHIS from the Foreign Agricultural Service with extensive private industry experience in international agricultural trade policy negotiation and enforcement. She has lived and worked in Asia, Africa, Australia, and the United Kingdom. She earned her BS from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Masters from Michigan State University.