Operations Staff

Arin Reeder

Assistant Director for Operations

Arin Reeder joined the Texas A&M Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture, IHA, in 2022 as Assistant Director for Operations. She manages the implementation and coordination of all projects and activities within the IHA, overseeing strategic initiatives from development through successful execution under general guidance from the IHA Leadership Team. She serves as Chief of Staff, which includes hiring, training, and overseeing all operations staff.

She has worked for Texas A&M University for 8 years, gaining a wide range of advanced-level administrative and project management experience, including building and cultivating strategic relationships. She has helped to build and promote new initiatives in several of her roles with Texas A&M Engineering and enjoys the role of liaison with cross-functional teams.

She served as manager of the Center for Infrastructure Renewal, CIR, a Texas A&M Engineering research center and oversaw daily operations in coordination with associated support service teams, including facilities, IT, business, and communications. She developed and implemented the daily operations for the 10,000 square-foot conference wing, including the facility’s guidelines, fee structure and online venue management system. She also assisted the director in strategic planning as well as establishing short- and long-term center goals.

In 2020, Arin was recruited as Project Manager II for the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, TEES, to develop and manage a customer service-oriented monitoring process for engineering research projects. She was responsible for developing a method to maximize spend on externally sponsored projects, with the goal of replicating that process across TEES.

Born and raised in Virginia, she earned her bachelor’s in history and anthropology from the University of Virginia in 2001 and her master’s in communication from Virginia Tech in 2006. She relocated to College Station, TX in 2006.