Center for Rural Entrepreneurship - Energizing Entrepreneurial Communities

Board of Directors

The Center has a ten-member Board of Directors selected for their experience in the field of entrepreneurship, rural and economic development and their ability to provide strategic guidance to the Center.

Brian Dabson
Research Professor and Director
Institute of Public Policy
Harry S. Truman School of Public Affairs
University of Missouri
137D Middlebush Hall
Columbia, MO 65211
573-882-5060
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Michelle Decker
Executive Director
Rural Action
P.O. Box 157
Trimble, Ohio 45782
740-767-4938
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Mary Hunt-Lieving
Senior Program Officer
Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation
223 Fourth Avenue
1400 Benedum-Trees Building
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222
412-246-3644
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Thomas S. Lyons (Chair)
Lawrence N. Field Familiy Chair in Entrepreneurship
Baruch College, CUNY
Department of Management
55 Lexington Avenue, B9-240
New York, NY 10010
646-312-3633
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Ines Polonius
Executive Director
alt.Consulting
211 West 3rd Avenue
Suite 245
Pine Bluff, AR 71611
870-535-0011
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Leslie Scott
Director
Institute for Rural Entrepreneurship
NC Rural Economic Development Center
4021 Carya Drive
Raleigh, NC 27610
919-250-4314
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Nancy Straw (Treasurer)
President
West Central Initiative
1000 Western Avenue
Fergus Falls, MN 56537
218-739-2239
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Lee Vickers
Retired President
Dickinson State University
5246 E. Calle Ventura
Phoenix, AZ 85018
480-621-8454
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Sherece West-Scantlebury
President & CEO
Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation
225 East Markham Street, Suite 200
Little Rock, Arkansas 72201
501-376-6854
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Shawn Winkler-Rios
Executive Director
e-Dev
1445 Willamette St, Suite #1
Eugene, OR 97401
541-463-4619
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