Faculty and Academic Staff for Community and Regional Development Institute
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Robin Blakely-Armitage |
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Robin Blakely-Armitage is a Senior Extension Associate with the Community & Regional Development Institute (CaRDI) and a member of the Department of Development Sociology. Her focus is on community development and the use of demographic data for strategic planning and informed decision-making. Robin serves as Managing Editor for the various CaRDI publication series, offers demographic trainings, organizes the Institute's research roundtables and seminar series, and serves as a board member for ... 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 in capacity building within the farmworker community in New York State. She is also engaged in research on farmworkers' ... 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 Regional 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 for CaRDI programming in the areas of energy, land use and community development. His work on land use involves research, outreach, and training efforts that attempt to build community-based decision making capacity and to help weave local policy into a regionally coherent fabric. Recently, he has increasingly focused on ... 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. As CaRDI's Community Development Coordinator, she develops educational programs and tools, facilitates regional networking opportunities, and conducts research designed to help local officials, community and economic developers, and other local leaders to collaboratively identify, pursue, and achieve their community's development goals. ... 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 is Executive Director of the Empire State Food and Agricultural Leadership Institute, or LEAD New York, a leadership development program for adult professionals in the food, agricultural and natural resource industries. Van De Valk is also a Senior Extension Associate in the Community and Regional Development Institute (CaRDI), part of the Department of Development Sociology at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University. Larry earned a PhD in Adult and Extension ... More > |
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