*Above photos thanks to Naol Eba, Piney Woods School and Mily Treviño-Sauceda, RDLN.
What's New 2015
RDLN Assembly in Mississippi
- Challenging Economic Inequality -
Current and previous RDLN graduates with board and staff
RDLN Network members gathered from the Southeast, Indian country, farmworker and Hispanic communities, and Appalachia, as well a Belize and Mexico to confront the challenges of economic, political, and social inequality in rural America.
The graduation speaker was Trina George, Mississippi Director for Rural Development at the US Department of Agriculture, shown receiving an RDLN mug from RDLN President Starry Krueger and Board members Dave Singleton and John Zippert (hidden).
Yumeka Rushing (seated fourth from left), Program Officer of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, with (l to r) Billie Jean Young, former RDLN Board Chair, one time Mississippi artist of the year and creator of one-woman show on Fannie Lou Hamer; Oleta Fitzgerald, RDLN Mississippi Food & Health Fellow and Regional Administrator, Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative (SRBWI); Starry Krueger, RDLN President; Ms. Rushing; Dorothy Grady-Scarbrough, RDLN Mississippi Food & Health Fellow and Executive Director of Mississippians Engaged in Greener Agriculture (MEGA); Meredith McGee, RDLN graduate, author and entrepreneur; Hazel Hall, author; and C.J. Jones, RDLN graduate, former Executive Director, Mississippi Action for Community Education (MACE). Standing (l to r) Mily Treviño-Sauceda, RDLN graduate and Board Member, President, Alianza Nacional de Campesinas; John Zippert, RDLN Board Member, Director of Program, Federation of Southern Cooperatives; Taurean Morton, Pastor, Lincoln Gardens Church of Christ, Volunteer, MEGA, former VISTA member RDLN; G. David Singleton, RDLN Board Member, founder, Native Entrepreneur Opportunity Fund