Aug. 8, 2003

 

UO/E welcomes Eavy to EC Region

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.

Contact Eavy at Courthouse, 300 Main St., P. O. Box 497, Hillsboro, MO 63050; (636) 797-5391; or via e-mail. 

University of Missouri Outreach and Extension

Eileen Yager, yagere@umsystem.edu
Weekly News Editor
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