rural Experts

Eric Jackson, Ph.D.

Executive Director, CTI, and Director, CTSRCUniversity of Connecticut

Eric Jackson researches driver behavior and vehicle impacts on transportation safety

Cindy Ott

Associate Professor | Director, Graduate StudiesUniversity of Delaware

Expert in American food and culture, history and memory, material and visual culture, and race and ethnicity studies

Roger Thurow

Senior Fellow The Chicago Council on Global Affairs

Pulitzer prize finalist with a wealth of experience writing about global food issues, hunger, poverty and international affairs

Ashwini Tiwari Pandey, PhD

Assistant Professor, School of Public HealthAugusta University

Maya Israel

Associate ProfessorUniversity of Florida

Maya Israel researches how to support academically diverse learners’ meaningful engagement in computer science education.

Frank H. Wu

Distinguished Professor of LawUC Hastings College of the Law

Email: wuf@uchastings.edu | Phone: 415-565-4830 | Office: 390-200

Jeremy Everett, D.Min.

Founder and Executive Director, Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and PovertyBaylor University

National voice on scalable solutions to end hunger through partnerships, research, innovative models & collaboration

Charmion B. Rush

Associate Professor of Inclusive and Special EducationWestern Carolina University

Charmion Rush's areas of research include culture relevant pedagogy, disproportionate representation, implicit bias and literacy practices.

James Hudnut-Beumler

Anne Potter Wilson Distinguished Professor of American Religious HistoryVanderbilt University

Expert in the history of religion in the American South.

Turner Goins

ProfessorWestern Carolina University

Turner Goins is a nationally known specialist in American Indian aging issues.