Our Staff
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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 in numerous conferences and workshops. |
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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. John's 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 |
| Not pictured are Quinton Robinson, Nadine Chatman and
Susmita Pendurthi. Their photos and sketches will be posted soon. |
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