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Meet Our Youth education resources Experts

Carolyn Ashton

4-H Youth Development

541-713-5004

Jessica Barnett

4-H and FCH Education Program Assistant

[email protected]

Rita Bauer

she/her/hers

Outdoor School Operations Manager

Contact for Outdoor School questions or support.

541-737-4391
[email protected]

Miesha Bennett

Education Program Assistant

[email protected]

Jennifer Boyle

Assistant Director of Open Campus

541-550-4133
[email protected]

Cindy Brown

4-H/FCH-SNAP Program Coordinator

Contact me for questions on 4-H youth development and healthy living programming in Sherman County as well as healthy living topics such as MyPlate, gardening, food preservation and food storage!

541-565-3230
[email protected]

Woody Davis

4-H Youth Development

4-H programming in Columbia County and Statewide 4-H Challenge & Adventure/Outdoor & Recreation

503-397-3462 x4
[email protected]

Kristopher Elliott

he/him

Interim Vice Provost for Extension and Engagement, Interim Director of OSU Extension

Contact me with questions about the Division of Extension and Engagement and OSU Extension Service.

[email protected]

Gina Galaviz-Yap

Director of OSU Juntos

541-737-2288
[email protected]

José R. García

OSU Open Campus Juntos Coordinator

503-316-3262
[email protected]

Ann Harris

OSU Open Campus Education Coordinator

Hood River: 541-386-3343 x38228; Wasco: 541-296-5494
[email protected]

Wendy Hein

she/her/hers

4-H Youth Development

503-650-3122
[email protected]

Shawna Holland

Education Program Assistant 2, SNAP-Ed

Please contact me for information about nutrition, physical activity, and food scarcity in Crook County.

[email protected]

Yasmeen Hossain

she/her/hers

ONREP Coordinator

Contact for environmental education opportunities, questions, and ideas throughout Oregon.

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Celeste Janssen

she/her

4-H Positive Youth Development Research Coordinator

[email protected]

Joanne Lyford

She/her/hers

SNAP-Ed Site Manager

503-657-7385
[email protected]

Robin Maille

she/her/hers

Family & Community Health/SNAP-Ed

Associate Professor of Practice, Extension FCH

541-963-1010
[email protected]

Didgette McCracken

Open Campus and Agriculture Faculty

Contact me with educational and community development questions as well as agriculture questions.

541-575-4028

Kristen Moore

she/her/hers

4-H Youth Development

Contact me for companion pet 4-H program questions in Multnomah, Washington, and Clackamas counties or if you are interested in getting involved in the statewide DIVE4Ag project.

971-361-9633
[email protected]

Belisario Nigenda Pérez

él/he/him/his

YEA CN Program Manager

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[email protected]

Kelly Noack

she/her/hers

4-H Outreach Coordinator

Contact for questions about 4-H in Marion County

503-373-3751
[email protected]

Alice Phillips

she/her

4-H Youth Development

503-821-1118
[email protected]

Samara Worlein Rufener

Program Coordinator

Contact me for questions about the Crook County 4-H Program, High Desert Leadership Retreat or 4-H Camp Tumbleweed!

541-447-6228
[email protected]

Julie Scism

She/Her/Hers

4-H Education Program Assistant

Contact me with 4-H Questions in Clatsop County.

503-325-8573
[email protected]

Kimi Starner

She/Her/Hers

Education Program Assistant 1, SNAP-Ed

Contact me with questions about Union County 4-H clubs, workshops, enrollment, volunteering, camp, and events.

541-426-3143
[email protected]

Karen Swanger

Director, KidSpirit

[email protected]

Allen Taggart

he/him/his

4-H Assistant Professor of Practice

Leads the Washington County 4-H Youth Development program within the Portland Metro area of Oregon. Conducts research on positive youth development, experience quality & design, volunteer management, and "first generation 4-H" participants.

[email protected]

Deb Warnock

4-H Youth Development, Family Community Health

541-426-3143
[email protected]

Elissa Wells

she / her / hers

4-H Youth Development

Contact me with questions about 4-H programming in Coos County.

541-572-5263 x25293
[email protected]

Jan Williams

she/her/hers

4-H Youth Development

Contact me (by email) with questions about Expressive Arts (Art, Photography, Needle Arts, Fiber Arts, etc.), Family & Consumer Sciences (Foods, Sewing, etc.) project area in Oregon 4-H. In Clackamas County, I am also responsible for the Livestock, Shooting Sports, STEM, Cloverbuds, Horticulture and Tractor Youth Certification Training programs.

503-650-3127
[email protected]
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