Advisory Group

The Center’s national advisory group provides advice and counsel on the Center’s strategic direction and opportunities. The national advisory group includes:

  • John Allen, Director, Western Rural Development Center, Utah State University, Logan, Utah
  • Becky Cleveland, The Brookfield Area Growth Partnership, Brookfield Community Development, Inc., Brookfield, Missouri
  • Victor Dau, Director, Small Business Center, Randolph Community College, Asheboro, North Carolina
  • Joseph (Jay) Kayne, Cintas Chair in Entrepreneurship, Richard T. Farmer School of Business, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
  • Wally Kearns, State Director, Kansas Small Business Development Center Network, Topeka, Kansas
  • Welthy Soni Myers, Senior Manager, Association for Enterprise Opportunity, Arlington, Virginia
  • Thomas Lyons, Professor and Director, Center for Research on Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky
  • Elsie Meeks, OWEESTA, Rapid City, South Dakota
  • Kimberly Pate, Director of Field Development, CFED, Washington, D.C.
  • Leslie Scott, Director, Institute for Rural Entrepreneurship, North Carolina Rural Economic Development Center, Raleigh, North Carolina

The RUPRI Center for Rural Entrepreneurship

The RUPRI Center for Rural Entrepreneurship strives to be the focal point for efforts to stimulate and support private and public entrepreneurship development in communities throughout rural America.  By supporting practice-driven research and evaluation and facilitating shared learning among practitioners, researchers and policy makers, the Center works to encourage entrepreneurship development as an effective route to building prosperous, dynamic, and sustainable rural economies. The Center is part of the Rural Policy Research Institute, an organization dedicated to providing unbiased analysis and information on the challenges, needs, and opportunities facing rural America. To learn more about RUPRI, go to www.rupri.org.

 

 

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