• Estate Planning
  • Family Financial Management for Limited Resource Audiences

GRANT MANAGEMENT

  • With UK staff to secure grant from the UK Ag. Alumni Assoc. for material development
  • Two grants were received by the national team working on the “Legally Secure Your Financial Future Curriculum” (2004 – 2005) --$2,000 from the Association of Financial Counseling and Planning Educators and $5,000 from the USDA – CSREES.
  • Healthy Homes Grant - $4,000 – Alabama Cooperative Extension System in Cooperation with U.S. Department of Agriculture & U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
  • USDA Capacity Building Grant: $520,000 - “Establishing a Family and Consumer Sciences Degree” (Key author & PI) – 2013
  • CYFAR – Check and Connect Grant: Co-PI since 2015- $600,000
  • 2009-2010

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE and ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Professional Associations

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

American Association of Family and Consumer Science

Kentucky Association of Family and Consumer Science

American Council on Consumer Interests

Kappa Omicron Phi

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority (Financial Secretary, 1974-76, Vice President, 1979-80)

Electrical Women's Roundtable (Secretary, 1978-79; Vice President 1979-80; President 1980-81)

Association of Kentucky Extension Specialists, Board Member, 2000-2002

Coalition for Consumer Economics Education in Kentucky (served on Board of Directors)

Association of Financial Planning and Counseling - KY

Kentucky Farm and Home Safety Council (Vice President, 1980-81; President 1981-82)

  • Kentucky Association of State Extension Professionals (KASEP) – board Member (term expired, 2005)
  • Epsilon Sigma Phi (Extension Professional Organization, Kentucky Chapter – UK & KSU Members), Board member, 2005-2009; President-Elect, 2009-2010; President, 2010-2011
  • Joint Council of Extension Professionals, Chairman, 2012
  • American Association of Family and Consumer Science (AAFCS) & KY AAFCS
  • Initiated into Gamma Sigma Delta Agricultural Honor Society – UK, 2005
  • Association of Financial Counseling and Planning Education (AFCPE)
  • American Council On Consumer Interests
  • Association of Home Equipment Educators (AHEE); President-Elect, 2009-2011; President, 2011-2013; Members of the association are both employed and retired leaders in the field. Represent College professors, Extension educators, appliance manufacturers, media representatives, and others affiliated with home equipment. The Association authored and distributed a Household Equipment Textbook in 2010.

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