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Helping communities improve their food systems and make the most of local foods is Courtney Long’s passion. In a decade with Iowa State University Extension and Outreach, Long has travelled to communities across Iowa and the nation, helping them identify their strengths and challenges, and finding ways they can improve.

She is especially interested in “place-based attributes and the details that make each community unique.” That includes such things as community values, geographic features, cultural and ethnic differences.

In some cases, the community is working to overcome a major disaster, such as COVID or a weather-related disaster, or simply looking for ways to become more resilient and food secure into the future.

Wherever she goes, the goal is the same: Helping people identify their resources, their challenges, and helping them map a plan toward an improved local food system that will provide nourishment and economic development into the future.

Long earned her master’s degree in sustainable agriculture from Iowa State in 2012, and is working on a doctorate in philosophy in sustainable agriculture, also from Iowa State.

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Alex Bartholomew 515-294-3537 abart@iastate.edu	Chris Kick ckick@iastate.edu	Traci Knight 515-294-4501 tknight@iastate.edu	Ron Nelson 515-294-3582 ronelson@iastate.edu
Micki Nelson 515-294-1651 micki@iastate.edu

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