Agrilinks

Currently, I am serving as Chief of Party/Director of the USAID Education and Research in Agriculture (USAID/ERA) project in Senegal. USAID/ERA is an agricultural education and training (AET) capacity building initiative, based on the U.S. land-grant model, working to promote food security in Senegal by creating and enhancing collaborative research, extension, and education platforms.

I am also an Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist in the Department of Agricultural, Leadership, and Community Education at Virginia Tech (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), where my practice and research are focused primarily on program evaluation and evaluation capacity building, especially in the Virginia Cooperative Extension (VCE) system. More generally, I am interested in community-based education, participatory research, and the politics of knowledge. 

Additionally, I am a:
- Board Member of the Eastern Evaluation Research Society (EERS)
- Program Co-Chair of the American Evaluation Association (AEA) Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building Topical Interest Group (OL-ECB TIG)
- Blog Coordinator for the eXtension Evaluation Community of Practice

Specialties: Non-formal education, systems evaluation, evaluation capacity building, research methodologies, community development in the U.S. and Africa, agricultural education and training (AET)