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Lorette Picciano
is our Executive Director.
Lorette Picciano joined the Rural Coalition as executive director in 1991.
Lorette received her undergraduate degree in Agricultural Economics at
Cornell University College of Agriculture, and completed graduate studies
at the University of Hawaii and the East-West Center. She worked for nearly
two decades in Washington, DC on advocacy with the religious and interfaith
community at the national level covering agriculture and rural issues,
hunger and food policy, trade, minority farming, farm credit and banking,
and a wide range of other economic justice issues. She has worked extensively
with the community-based justice movement and the religious community
at the state and grassroots levels on rural and trade issues, participating
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Debra Livingston is our
Deputy Director.
Debra Livingston joined the staff in early 1997 to assist the RC board and
staff turn ideas into programs and to raise the funds needed to do the
work. A graduate of Florida State University's School of Social Work,
Debra previously worked with community-based organizations as Director of a national voter
registration project at Interfaith Action for Economic Justice, and later as Director of
Development and Communications for the same organization. Following her term at Interfaith
Action, Debra pursued a second career and certification in horticulture and landscape
design through George Washington University and the USDA Graduate School. Debra brings
many years of horticulture, fundraising and program planning experience to the Rural Coalition. |
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John Green, Ph.D. is a Research Advisor to the Rural Coalition.
John is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Community Development at Delta State
University in Cleveland, MS. He also serves as Graduate Coordinator of the Master
of Science in Community Development program, and holds a Faculty Associate
appointment at the Center for Community Development where he directs the
Institute for Community-Based Research. John1s teaching and research interests
include participatory and action research methods, livelihood strategies,
cooperative organizations, and social advocacy. He has worked with the Rural
Coalition and the Missouri Action Research Connection (University of
Missouri-Columbia) on collaborative research projects for the past four
years. |
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Chilo Villarreal is our
person to contact in Mexico.
Calle 24, #3007
Col. Facifico, CP 31030
Chihuahua, Chihuahua MX
tel/fax 011-52(14) 20-43-96 |
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Not pictured are Quinton Robinson and
Yetta Lyle.
Pictures and sketches are coming. |
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