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...
EducationAlabama A&M University (AAMU) -Bachelor's Degree, Apparel, Merchandising & Design, May 2006- Graduated Cum laudeAlabama A&M University- Master's Degree, Apparel, Merchandi... More
According to Dissertation research submitted by Iowa State University, The subject of clothing relates to almost every other subject taught, such as history (how political conditions were an influence... Read More
Uplift: Empowering Todays Youth for Tomorrows Future is a project that is designed to help provide workforce prep and life skills to limited resource and at-risk youth in Hardin and Fayette Counties o... Read More
The ever-changing landscape of the current pandemic world has forced multiple populations to avoid outdoor spaces. According to research conducted by CivicScience, There is a predicted 15% rise in the... Read More
As the 2020 pandemic closed schools in early March, McCracken County Cooperative Extension Service through McCracken County 4-H was able to adapt and evolve immediately. Schools closed on March 13, 20... Read More