Our local and regional partnerships collaboratively achieve three goals:

  1. Build organizational institutional capacity
  2. Develop skills and agency among scholars, community members, faculty, and staff
  3. Sustain mutually beneficial partnerships

Long-Term Community Partners

 

Providence Neighborhood Association

  • Recurring Providence Community Garden volunteers
  • Student-led research projects focused on Providence Community priorities
  • Provide institutional capacity building support for the Providence Community Garden

 

Citizens for a Sustainable Future Inc

  • Supporting partner for the 2024 Tallahassee Earth Day festival
  • Grant and proposal writing collaborations leading to over $500,000 of grant support for the Brilliant Resilience Youth Empowerment Program

 

Community Driven-Innovation Team

Bruce Strouble, Ph.D.

Expertise: program management, community development, sustainability, resilience

Maria-Paula McIntyre

Expertise: university-community partnerships, community-based participatory research, facilitation, and project management

Rahni Wright

Expertise: community engagement, undergraduate development, capacity building

Camille Lewis

Expertise: environmental justice, sustainable agriculture, environmental education

Ivanna Pengelley, Ph.D.

Expertise: just and equitable decision-making, trauma-responsive communication approaches, agricultural education

Jayur Mehta, Ph.D.

Expertise: community-engaged research, archaeology, resilience, climate change adaptation

Mike Mitchell

Expertise: program development, partnerships & collaborations, funding strategy, innovation ecosystems

April Fitzpatrick

Expertise: visual art, art therapy exploring the intersections of racism, art and brain health, and community well being

Kassie Ernst, Ph.D.

Expertise: knowledge co-production, climate change adaptation, equity in resilience