Extension
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Contributed.
with Local Stakeholders.
of Multistate Efforts.
of Volunteers Engaged.
Number of those who are comfortable addressing community issues through local leadership |
1271 |
Number of those who take time to recruit and engage people to undertake community projects |
649 |
Number of individuals who are comfortable identifying community problems |
1437 |
Number of those reporting that their knowledge of leadership has been enhanced |
2058 |
Number of those with improved leadership skills |
1648 |
Number of those who now serve as a mentor to others |
408 |
Number of those currently serving in a leadership role |
1645 |
Number of those reporting more confidence in their leadership skills |
1326 |
Diane Mason, FCS Agent in Boone County, is a leader in Kentucky Cooperative Extension international programming. In October of 2019, she asked Dr. Nicole Breazeale to develop a program on Argentina, including an empanada making demonstration. Trained as a Sociologist of Agri-Food Systems (her dissertation research was funded by Fulbright and involved a year of ethnographic fieldwork in the burley tobacco belt of Misiones, Argentina) and interested in the power of storytelling to educate, open mi...
