Aug. 8, 2003
Welcome to Barbara (B.J.) Eavy, community development specialist serving
the EC Region.
Headquartered in Jefferson County,
she also will have programming responsibility in Franklin County and will serve
the East Central Region with four community development specialist colleagues. (See:
http://outreach.missouri.edu/about/Eavy.html)
Eavy, who joined the University Aug. 4, brings a diverse array of
experience in community/regional development, business and financial management,
personal and career counseling, employee training and personnel management, and
societal skills training for at-risk families and youth.
Most recently, she was a counselor, registrar and administrator at Tinian
High School in the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands.
She completed a four-month professional contract as a community
development consultant for the Northern Marianas College, Saipan, in 2000.
From 1997-99, she was a geography/regional planning Peace Corps Fellow
with Western Illinois University, working with a rural Illinois community as
community and economic developer. From
1995-97, Eavy was a business consultant and trainer with Training Systems
International, providing contract support for projects in Nepal, Zimbabwe,
Pakistan and Angola, where she conducted business management and motivation
seminars. She taught a business
management curriculum for advanced agriculture/business students while serving
with the Ministry of Agriculture, Lesotho, 1993-95.
Prior positions include resident general manager of
a retirement community in Boulder, Colo.; team coordinator of a community
services agency working with homeless and disadvantaged persons in Denver,
Colo.; and financial support contract site manager for the U.S. Department of
Energy, Western Area Power Administration in Denver, Colo.
Eavy holds an associate’s degree from UMSL; a
business administration certificate from Metropolitan State College, Denver,
Colo.; a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Colorado Christian
University; and a certificate in community development and M.A. in geography
from Western Illinois University-Macomb.
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