Faculty and Academic Staff for Community and Regional Development Institute
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Robin Blakely |
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Robin Blakely is an Extension Associate with the Community & Rural Development Institute (CaRDI) and a member of the Department of Development Sociology. She has worked extensively with rural communities and regions around New York State, most notably with the Rural Vision Project, a collaborative effort between CaRDI, Development Sociology, CCE, and the NYS Legislative Commission on Rural Resources. Her focus is on community development, social and demographic indicators, and organizing the ... More > |
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David Brown |
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My scholarship is motivated by an interest in explaining the determinants of spatial inequality in more developed nations. In particular, I am interested in how processes of uneven national development shape opportunity structures and life chances of people living in various types of areas. Space and locality are organizing principles in my work, and I view them as contingent social structures which effect social behavior, modifying overall social relationships. My work is focused in the U.S., ... More > |
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Mary Dudley |
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Mary Jo Dudley is the Director of the Cornell Farmworker Program (a collaborative effort of CALS, CHE and CCE), and a faculty member of the Department of Development Sociology. She has extensive research interests in immigrant workers, farmworkers, US-Latin American relations, migration from Latin America to the US, and immigrant communities in the US. She is currently involved capacity building within the farmworker community in New York State. She is also engaged in research on farmworkersÕ ... More > |
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Rod Howe |
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As Cornell Cooperative Extension Assistant Director for Community and Economic Vitality and Executive Director of the Community and Rural Development Institute (CaRDI), Rod Howe 1) provides leadership and support for integrating research and extension into programs which address community & economic vitality issues; 2) fosters collaborative programming among faculty and off-campus Extension educators; and 3) establishes effective working relationships with local, state, regional and national ... More > |
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David Kay |
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David Kay is a Senior Extension Associate with the Community & Regional Development Institute (CaRDI) in the Department of Development Sociology. David provides leadership to CaRDI in the area of Landscape Management and Land Use Planning, with the goal of helping to "support sound management of New York`s land resources". His land use programming involves research, outreach, and training efforts that attempt to build community-based decision making capacity and to help weave local policy into a ... More > |
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Heidi Mouillesseaux-Kunzman |
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Heidi is an Extension Associate with the Community and Regional Development Institute (CaRDI) in the Department of Development Sociology at Cornell University and a Project Coordinator with the Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development. As CaRDI's Community Development Coordinator, she develops educational programs and tools, facilitates regional networking opportunities, and occasionally conducts research designed to help local officials, community and economic developers, and other local ... More > |
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John Sipple |
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John W. Sipple joined Development Sociology in the summer of 2011 after 13 years in the Department of Educaiton. He has focused his research interests on the responses of public school districts to changes in state and federal policy. Central to his work are issues of community and organizational change and how they relate to learning opportunities for students across racial, socioeconomic, and geographic lines. He teaches courses on the organizational, social, and political contexts of ... More > |
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Lawrence Van de valk |
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Larry's primary responsibility is to serve as Executive Director of the Empire State Food and Agricultural Leadership Institute, or "LEAD New York" as it is more commonly known. LEADNY is a leadership development program for adult professionals in the food, agricultural and natural resource industries of the northeast. We define “leadership” as a social influence process for change. The program improves participant’s leadership skills through an experiential education/action learning process ... More > |
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