Kathy Draeger

Statewide Director of Regional Sustainable Development Partnerships & Adjunct Professor of Agronomy and Plant Genetics

Kathy Draeger is Statewide Director of the U of MN Regional Sustainable Development Partnerships 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. 

Course(s) taught

GCC 5034

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