People

Donna Westfall-Rudd, Project Director

Associate Professor of Teaching and Learning in the department of Agricultural, Leadership, and Community Education;

mooredm@vt.edu

Melissa Faircloth, Associate Director

Director of the American Indian and Indigenous Community Center

missy86@vt.edu

Sam Cook, Co-PI

Director of American Indian Studies; Associate Professor of History; 

sacook2@vt.edu

John M. Galbraith, Co-PI

Professor of Plant and Environmental Sciences; 

ttcf@vt.edu

Kristin Lamoureux, Co-PI

Visiting professor of Hospitality and Tourism Management;

kristinl@vt.edu

Lana Petrie, Co-PI

Rick Rudd, Co-PI

Professor and Community Viability Chair; Director, Workforce Education and Development, Center for International Research, Education, and Development

rudd@vt.edu

Tracy Rutherford, Co-PI

Professor and Department Head, Agricultural, Leadership, and Community Education

trutherford@vt.edu

Jessica Taylor, Co-PI

Director of Public History and Assistant Professor of History

jessicataylor@vt.edu

Bryce Burrell, Graduate Research Assistant

Department of Creative Technologies

bbryce@vt.edu

Desiree Shelley , Graduate Research Assistant 

Agricultural, Leadership and Community Education

desiree@vt.edu