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Contacts for RSDP
We encourage you to reach out to us with your sustainability ideas. Please contact the Executive Director in your region with your local project idea, or our statewide food or energy staff with questions about their work to advance food systems and clean energy across the state. We look forward to hearing from you!
Our staff
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Kathryn Draeger, Statewide Director, RSDP
draeg001@umn.edu, 612-625-3148
Kathryn Draeger is Statewide Director of RSDP and adjunct professor of Agronomy and Plant Genetics. She has led numerous grant-funded projects, including the Farm to Rural Grocery to Wholesale Backhaul Project. In 2017, Kathy was the University of Minnesota Community Engaged Scholar for Extension. She has been a Bush Leadership Fellow and MacArthur Scholar, and has served on the Governor's Roundtable for Sustainable Development in Minnesota, as an Environmental Protection Commissioner in Iowa, and as the Governor-appointed Agricultural Representative and Vice Chair of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency board. In 2007, Kathy and her family moved to Big Stone County to live and farm sustainably. Kathy holds a doctorate in water resources and master's in soil science from the University of Minnesota.
Caryn Mohr, Assistant Statewide Director, RSDP
mohr0007@umn.edu, 612-626-9827
Diane Seefeldt, Executive Secretary, RSDP
seefe012@umn.edu, 218-726-7555
Mary Hannemann, Student Engagement Director, RSDP
oldha012@umn.edu, 612-624-9430
Molly Zins, Executive Director, Central RSDP
zend0007@umn.edu, 218-828-2332
Marie Kirsch, Executive Office and Administrative Specialist, Central RSDP
kirs0069@umn.edu, 218-828-2275
David Abazs, Executive Director, Northeast RSDP
dwabazs@umn.edu, 218-726-6146
Diane Seefeldt, Executive Office and Administrative Specialist, Northeast RSDP
seefe012@umn.edu, 218-726-7555
Linda Kingery, Executive Director, Northwest RSDP
kinge002@umn.edu, 218-281-8697
Anna Peterson, Executive Administrative Assistant, Northwest RSDP
hans0947@umn.edu, 218-281-8699
Okechukwu "Okey" Ukaga, Executive Director, Southeast RSDP
ukaga001@umn.edu, 507-536-6313
Sarah Topness, Executive Office and Administrative Specialist, Southeast RSDP
swangen@umn.edu, 507-280-2863
Anne Dybsetter, Executive Director, Southwest RSDP
adybsett@umn.edu, 320-235-0726 x 2012
Mary Jo Foxx, Executive Office and Administrative Specialist, Southwest RSDP
foxxx055@umn.edu, 320-235-0276 x 2001
Greg Schweser, Statewide Director, Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems, RSDP
Specialties: Deep Winter Greenhouses
schwe233@umn.edu, 612-625-9706
Connie Carlson, Associate Program Director, Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems, RSDP
Specialties: Supply chains
carl5114@umn.edu, 612-709-6790
Ren Olive, Program Associate, Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems, RSDP
Specialties: Rural grocery stores, backhauling
nolive@umn.edu, 612-624-8452
Carol Ford, Grant Project Coordinator, RSDP
Specialties: Deep Winter Greenhouses
fordcj@morris.umn.edu, 320-226-9435
| Name | Title | Phone | |
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| Lissa Pawlisch | Director, Clean Energy Resource Teams, RSDP | pawl0048@umn.edu | 612-624-2293 |
| Joel Haskard | Co-Director, Clean Energy Resource Teams, RSDP | haska004@umn.edu | 612-625-8759 |
| Dan Thiede | Communications Manager, Clean Energy Resource Teams, RSDP | thie0235@umn.edu | 612-626-0556 |
| Maggie Kozak | Event Programming and Seed Grant Manager, Clean Energy Resource Teams, RSDP | makozak@umn.edu | 612-626-0555 |
| Alexis Troschinetz | Behavior Change and Metrics Coordinator, Clean Energy Resource Teams, RSDP | atroschi@umn.edu | 612-626-0455 |
| Peter Lindstrom | Local Government Outreach Coordinator, Clean Energy Resource Teams, RSDP | plindstr@umn.edu | 612-625-9634 |
| Fritz Ebinger | Rural Energy Development Program Manager, Clean Energy Resource Teams, RSDP | ebing007@umn.edu | 612-626-1028 |
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