Conferences, Workshops and Presentations 

• 2025 Diversify Your Farm; Raising and Processing Small Livestock with Connor Ledet, Delhi Farm & Feed Supply, Delhi, LA, March 2025.  

• 2024 Diversify Your Farm; Raising and Processing Small Livestock with Connor Ledet, Farmer and Valerie West, LSU Ag Extension Agent, 2024 Homesteader Conference, Red River Research Station, Bossier City, LA, October 2024.

• 2024 Comparing and Contrasting Farming in the Deep South, NWF Growing Outreach Conference, Madison, WI, August 2024.

• 2024 Healthy Community Services 3rd Annual Retreat/Reception, Growing Commercial Hemp in LA for Phytoremediation, New Orleans, LA, July 2024. 

•  2024 Diversify Your Farm; Raising and Processing Small Livestock with Anna Timmerman, Ag Extension Agent, Docville Farm, Violet, LA, May, 2024.

• Louisiana Conservation Champions 2nd Cohort promoting Regenerative Agriculture, LA and MS,  2023-2025 (Funding provided  by NRCS and NWF).

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• Louisiana Conservation Champions Inaugural Cohort promoting  Regenerative Agriculture, LA, 2021-2023 (Funded provided by NRCS and NWF). 

• Healthy Community Services 2nd Annual In-Service, Growing Commercial and Industrial Hemp in Louisiana, July 2023.  

• American Community Gardening Association Conference Lead Organizer, New Orleans, LA, January-October 2022. 

•  SSAWG National Conference, "Connecting Your CSA to SNAP~EBT" (2020), Little Rock, AR, October 2020. 

• LA-SAWG Regional Conference, "Connecting Your CSA to SNAP~EBT", New Orleans, LA, July 2019.

•  La Ter.re Institute for Community and Ecology, Kiln, MS, April 2018.

• American Community Gardening Association *ACGA* 38th Annual Conference (2017), Hartford, CT 

•  American Community Gardening Association *ACGA* 39th Annual Conference (2018), College Park, GA

• American Community Gardening Association *ACGA* 41st Annual Conference (2021), Virtual 

• Tulane School of Social Work City, Culture and Community Graduate Symposium (2017), New Orleans, LA

• Longue Vue House and Botanical Garden (2017) , New Orleans, LA

• Colorado State University Drivers of Innovation 2nd Place Winner (2015) , Fort Collins, CO

• National Association of Ethnic Studies Annual Conference (2013) Fort Collins, CO

Federal Grant Reviews 

2020~2026

• Office of Head Start Early Head Start Grant (Reviewer) 

• Office of Head Start Expansion Grant (Reviewer)

• Office of Head Start Expansion Grant Round 2 (Reviewer)

• Office of Minority Health (OMH)/Accessing Social Determinants of Health Data through Local Data Intermediaries Initiative (Chair)

• USDA Local Food Promotion (Chair)

• USDA Regional Food System Partnerships (Reviewer)

• USDA Farm and Food Workers Relief Grant Program (Chair)

• USDA Regional Food System Partnerships (Chair)

• USDA Regional Food System Partnerships (Chair)

• USDA Local Meat Capacity Grant Round 1 (Reviewer) 

• USDA Local Meat Capacity Grant Round 2 (Reviewer)

• USDA Organic Market Development Grant (Chair) 

• USDA Meat and Poultry Processing Expansion Program Phase 2 (Reviewer)

• Office of Head Start Early Head Start and  Head Start Expansion Grants Reviews 1,2,3 (Reviewer)

• USDA, AMS, Farm Labor Stabilization and Protection Pilot Program (Chair)

• Office of Head Start, Early Head Start Partnerships (Reviewer)

• Regional Food System Partnerships (Chair)

• Office of Head Start, Head Start Partherships Grant (Reviewer)

• Office of Head Start, Partnerships Grant (Chair)

2026

• USDA, LAMP Grants, Regional Food System Partnerships, (Chair)

• Specialized Services for Abused Parents and Their Children (Demonstration Projects) (Independent Reviewer)

• MPPEP Meat and Poultry Processing Expansion Projects; Processing Expansion Projects (Chair)