Missouri participants
Casey Jo Kellner, Highlandville; Missouri Department of Agriculture
Laura Johnston, Columbia; assistant professor, MU School of Journalism and faith editor at the Columbia Missourian.
Elver Pardo
Elver Pardo, Columbia.
Elver, a native of Colombia, South America, works as a 4-H youth specialist for immigrant populations and Hispanics in Missouri for University Extension.
Lesli Moylan, Ashland; community volunteer, founder of school gardening program with Ashland public schools.
Kara Lubischer
Kara Lubischer, St. Louis; Community Development Specialist, University Extension.
Crystal Weber
Crystal Weber, Kansas City.
Crystal is a community Development Specialist with University Extension. Much of her work centers on partnering local growers with community farmers markets.
Sarah Hultine
Sarah Hultine, Salem; Community Development Specialist, University Extension.
Becki Godi, Salem; insurance producer.
Jenny Flatt
Jenny Flatt, West Plains; 4-H youth specialist with University Extension.
Vincent Nguyen, United Way of Greater Kansas City
Melissa McAlpine, DeSoto; a volunteer with farmers’ markets.
Adam Saunders, Columbia; co-founder of the Center for Urban Agriculture and a graduate student in forestry at MU.
Phil Howard, Columbia; volunteer with children’s theater programs in Columbia.
Katie Eggerman, Columbia, graduate student at MU, studying public health and policy.
Sandy Hodge
Sandy Hodge, University Extension, Columbia. Hodge is an Extension Associate Professor, Division of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Missouri. She lead the program for GLE and coordinated our trip.
Mary Leuci
Mary Leuci, a Community Development Program Director and Assistant Dean, College of Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources University of Missouri Extension.
Susan Tharp, program evaluator. She has been to Thailand and evaluated an earlier GLE program.
BJ Eavy
BJ Eavy, our project facilitator, has worked on the current itinerary and will accompany us to Thailand. Unfortunately BJ wasn’t able to complete the trip with us and had to return to the U.S.
And, Thitinun Boonseng (TA to all of us) who is a doctoral student in educational technology and has been involved in the GLE program assisting with translation and logistics since 2004.
