MEET THE AUTHORS/ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Karen Vines is an assistant professor and Extension specialist for continuing professional education in the Virginia Tech Department of Agricultural, Leadership, and Community Development and Virginia Cooperative Extension. She is the Extension Foundation National Association for Extension Professional Staff Development (NAEPSDP) Program Planning Fellow for 2018. Karen’s research focuses on engagement in Cooperative Extension and higher education and how to provide development for Extension professionals in this area. Karen can be reached at kvines@vt.edu. Karen’s focus on engaged program development has added greatly to the Extension Foundation’s Impact Collaborative program.
Image Credit: Virginia Tech, Dept. of Agricultural, Leadership, and Community Development
C. Theodor Forde-Stiegler, MOD is the executive director and collaborative arts lead at NEXUS4change. He is following his passion for creatively building synergistic environments based on varied experience working for governmental agencies, universities, health care providers, global non-profit World Vision, and work in advocacy, arts management, music therapy, trauma informed care – facilitating, consulting, writing, editing, and translating diverse collaborative change and collaborative arts projects. In both the US and Germany, he has served people with developmental disabilities for nearly two decades. He holds a Master’s in Organization Development and Change from BGSU, where he teaches at the Schmitdhost College of Business. He is the chief curator and editor at myLibrary publishing and has authored and co-authored various articles and chapters on collaboration innovation, and assessing change. Theo loves teaching therapeutic drumming classes at the Boys and Girls Club of Toledo.
Molly Immendorf, Extension Foundation, has overseen the development of the Impact Collaborative. Mark Locklear from Extension Foundation also contributed.
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