Justin Akers, MS

Justin Akers teaches courses in Agricultural Business and leads the Ag Business Club on the Graceland University Lamoni Campus. Before returning to Graceland in the Fall of 2025, he served as a Regional Director for Iowa State University Extension and Outreach in Southwest Iowa from 2020-2025.

From 2010-2016, Akers served Graceland as the Director of the Sandage Center for the Study of Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship, led the Enactus team, taught Ag Business classes, and co-advised the Agricultural Business Club. He returned from 2018-2020 as an Assistant Professor of Business Administration, teaching courses in Accounting, Agricultural Business, Marketing, and Sales.

Akers brings a wide variety of experience to his present role at Graceland. He has been an entrepreneur, worked in the real estate, property management and insurance fields, and served as a one-on-one business consultant as the Regional Director for the Mid-Iowa Small Business Development Center. A life-long farmer at heart, Justin, along with his wife Kristen and their three teenagers, raise crops and livestock on their family farm in nearby Ringgold County.