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Mike Hamm
Michael Hamm is the C. S. Mott Professor of Sustainable Agriculture at Michigan State University and head of the C.S. Mott Group for Sustainable Food Systems at MSU. Mike is affiliated with the Departments of Community, Agriculture, Recreation and Resource Studies; Crop and Soil Sciences; and Food Science and Human Nutrition. His appointment encompasses teaching, the Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension. The work of the C.S. Mott Group for Sustainable Food Systems at MSU is focused on small and medium scale family farm viability, equal access by all members of a community to a healthy diet, and dispersing animals in the countryside. Prior to moving to MSU he was Dean of Academic and Student Programs for Cook College, Rutgers University. As a faculty member at Rutgers University he was co-founder and director of the New Jersey Urban Ecology Program, an effort that brings together individuals from diverse backgrounds to address sustainable food systems in New Jersey. He was also faciitator for the New Jersey Cooperative Gleaning Network since 1998 and the founding director of the Cook Student Organic Farm from 1993 to 1998. He was board member and board president of the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Jersey. He does research in the areas of community food security, community and sustainable food systems.
Michigan State University 312B Natural Resources East Lansing, MI 48824 Phone - (517) 432-1611 mhamm@msu.edu
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Susan Smalley is Director of the C.S. Mott Group for Sustainable Food Systems at Michigan State University. Her administrative responsibilities include group planning, development, implementation, reporting and evaluation. She works with community partners to conduct applied research and outreach that focuses on community-based food systems and local food marketing strategies, especially farmers markets. She co-teaches Horticulture 256, Direct Marketing of Organic Produce, and Horticulture 257, Wholesale Marketing of Organic Produce, both offered during fall semester as part of MSU’s Organic Farming Certificate Program.
An original incorporator of Michigan Food and Farming Systems (MIFFS), a Michigan not-for-profit corporation, Smalley was also a founder of the Michigan Farmers Market Association (MIFMA) and its web site www.farmersmarkets.msu.edu. She serves as the Michigan liaison with USDA for small and part-time farming. Much of her work focuses on how to develop and enhance farmers’ markets to benefit small and medium-scale farmers, residents and communities. Her scholarly interests include local food, sustainable farming, direct marketing, and sustainable food and farming business development.
Smalley’s professional experience has all been with Michigan State University. Since 1970 her professional roles have included Extension Home Economist, County Extension Director, Regional Extension Supervisor, Extension Program Leader, Extension Specialist and Academic Specialist. She has been active as a facilitator for Michigan State University Extension Multicultural Self-Awareness training and she also facilitates with many other groups. She has additional experience in non-formal education and leadership development, including Myers-Briggs, experiential learning and new instructional approaches.
Director, C.S. Mott Group for Sustainable Food Systems, 302A Natural Resources Building East Lansing, MI 48824-1222 Phone - (517) 432-0049 Fax - (517) 353-3834 smalley3@msu.edu
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Anne Conwell
Anne Conwell is an East Lansing native. Following graduation from MSU with a liberal arts degree, she moved to Ohio, then Virginia. In 1978 she returned to her roots and began a career at MSU. That twenty-five-plus-year career has been spent in four colleges, the latest being the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources. As secretary to Mike Hamm, the current C.S. Mott Chair of Sustainable Agriculture, and secretary to Richard Harwood, the former C.S. Mott Chair, she has had a fifteen-year indoctrination to the production and consumer sides of sustainable agriculture.
Michigan State University 312 Natural Resources East Lansing, MI 48824 Phone - (517) 432-1612 conwella@msu.edu
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Susan Cocciarelli Susan Cocciarelli is an academic specialist with focused efforts on community-based finance, asset building, agri-business, effective land use, and market niches and linkages to a sustainable community food system. Susan provides technical assistance, research efforts, and effective practice-sharing toward these efforts. Susan’s work experience includes technical assistance in developing and direct governance of two microenterprise loan funds in Michigan; the development and implementation of Individual Development Accounts programs in schools, community based service organizations, community development corporations, and low income credit unions; and Board development and training to emerging community development corporations. She currently is coordinating a statewide EITC-Financial Education-Financial Services Learning Demonstration initiative in Michigan communities. Michigan State University 302C Natural Resources East Lansing, MI 48824 Phone - (517) 432-4525 cocciare@msu.edu
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David Conner David Conner is a research specialist studying economic impacts of community-based food systems and marketing of sustainable raised products. David holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics and a Masters in Extension Education, with an educational background in food distribution and marketing, farm management, consumer economics, and adult education. His areas of interest include organic agriculture, food entrepreneurship and value chain development. Michigan State University 303 Natural Resources East Lansing, MI 48824 Phone - (517) 353-1914 connerd@msu.edu
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Cheryl Danley Cheryl Danley is an Outreach Specialist with the C.S Mott Group for Sustainable Food Systems at MSU. Her primary responsibility is to engage with communities to strengthen their access to fresh, locally grown, healthy and affordable food. She is the technical assistance liaison to the national W.K. Kellogg Foundation's Food and Fitness Initiative aimed at creating healthy community environments for children, youth and families. Trained in agricultural economics, Cheryl had broad international experience in community development, agricultural marketing, natural resource management and policy. She previously served as assistant director for MSU's Partnership for Food Industry Development -- Fruits & Vegetables. Michigan State University 309 Natural Resources East Lansing, MI 48824 Phone - (517) 432- 0309 danleych@msu.edu
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Laura Goddeeris
Laura Goddeeris is an Outreach Specialist providing support to the W. K. Kellogg Foundation’s Food and Fitness Initiative. Her primary efforts focus on enhancing linkages between community, state and national efforts toward policy and systems change. Laura is an East Lansing native and MSU alum with a broad background in research, community activism and program administration. Prior to joining the Mott Group, she spent several years in Chicago, where she completed her Masters in Urban Planning and Policy and worked on a wide range of community development, economic, and environmental issues, including a study of Chicago grocer location patterns, and a primer on Chicago’s community-based food system resources.
Michigan State University, 309 Natural Resources Building, East Lansing, MI 48824 Phone - 517-353-0005 laurag@msu.edu
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Colleen Matts
Colleen Matts is an Outreach Specialist for farm to school. Colleen has an educational background in agriculture and food policy and community development around local and sustainable food systems. Prior to joining the Mott Group, Colleen coordinated outreach and communication efforts for an immigrant farming project and worked as a consultant on projects focusing on farm to hospital, local dairy marketing, and organic dairy policy and production. Her work with the Mott Group involves coordination of farm to school efforts through a statewide coalition comprised of school food service staff, farmers, distributors, state agencies, community organizations, and commodity groups.
Michigan State University 303 Natural Resources East Lansing, MI 48824-1222 Phone - (517) 432-0310 Fax - (517) 353-3834 matts@msu.edu
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Vicki Morrone
Vicki Morrone is an outreach specialist to serve organic vegetable and field crop producers. Her educational background in plant pathology and plant science provide a framework for her work in production and pest management outreach and research programs serving Michigan organic and transition producers of field crops and/or vegetables. Vicki’s interests include cover crop systems, sustainable and organic integrated pest management, outreach to new farmers, sustainable agriculture in developing countries and integrated farming systems.
Additionally, Vicki’s role includes the promotion and facilitation of research opportunities with MSU faculty, and to create outreach programs to deliver information to farming communities. Information and events on organic ag production can be found at Michigan’s organic web site www.michiganorganic.msu.edu.
Michigan State University 303 Natural Resources East Lansing, MI 48824-1222 Phone - (517) 353-3542 Cell - (517) 282-3557 Fax - (517) 353-3834 sorrone@msu.edu
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Jekeia Murphy Jekeia Murphy is the Program Assistant for W.K. Kellogg Food and Fitness Initiative, which is aimed at creating healthy community environments for children, youth and families. After graduating from MSU's College of Arts and Letters in 2006 with a B.A. in English, Jekeia made MSU home by joining the C.S. Mott Group the same year. Her primary responsibility concerns coordinating activities of the Mott Group associated with the Food and Fitness Initiative acting as principal liaison for all project parties. Michigan State University 309 Natural Resources East Lansing, MI 48824 Phone - (517) 432-0308 stilljek@msu.edu
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Michael Score Michael Score is an agricultural educator with Michigan State University Extension. His M.A. in rural sociology and B.S. in crop and soil sciences provide a background in agronomy, land use, public policy, leadership development, and agricultural economic development. Mike’s work within the Mott Group includes the establishment of Food Buyers Clubs in urban communities, regional agricultural economic development, and the evaluation of pasture-based livestock systems. MSUE Agricultural Educator P.O. Box 8645 Ann Arbor, MI. 48107 East Lansing, MI 48824-1222 Cell Phone - 403-1025 Fax - {734} 222-3990 score@msu.edu
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Anne Scott
Anne Scott serves as project coordinator for the Michigan Youth Community Food Initiative as part of the Mott Group. Her current work includes the Michigan Youth Farm Stand Project, the School Garden Nutrition Education Collaborative, and Growing Healthy Together in the Genesee Intermediate School District. She received her MSU undergraduate degree in Urban and Regional Planning, including an independent study of urban agriculture in Detroit, and a capstone practicum involving a farmers' market redevelopment study for the Fulton Street Farmers' Market in Grand Rapids. Anne has completed internships with the MSU Student Organic Farm, Lansing Planning and Neighborhood Development Office, and the Greater Lansing Housing Coalition. Currently, Anne is pursuing her Masters Degree in Public Health at MSU. Anne is interested in youth engagement and community development for health equity.
Michigan State University, 303 Natural Resources Building, East Lansing, MI 48824 517-353-0751 scottann@msu.edu
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Kathryn Colasanti
Kathryn Colasanti is a master's student in Community, Agriculture, Recreation and Resource Studies. Kathryn has a background in Spanish and Biology. Before joining the Mott Group in 2007, she worked on an urban farm and with a community garden non-profit in Denver. Kathryn is interested in the development of local food systems in the urban context and in urban agriculture not only as a strategy for community development but as a way to increase urban food self-reliance. She provides support for technical assistance on the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Food and Fitness Initiative with the aim of increasing communities’ capacity to affect change in their food system.
Michigan State University 309 Natural Resources Building 517-353-0642 colokat@msu.edu
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Charlotte Litjens is a master's student in Community, Agriculture, Recreation and Resource studies. She joined the Mott Group in 2007 with an academic background in biology and environmental chemistry, and a vocational background in agriculture and natural resource management. Prior to 2007, she held a position in community health resource and program development in Appalachian North Carolina. She is interested in equitable food access, civic engagement and public participation around food systems issues, as well as public policy as it affects community food systems. She provides support for technical assistance on the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Food and Fitness Initiative with the aim of increasing communities’ capacity to affect change in their food system.
Michigan State University
309 Natural Resources Building
517-432-0307
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