A past radio station manager and voice over artist, DaraMonifah® is an innovative Communication Specialist who uses extensive experience in serving as a liaison/mediator between the University Cooperative Extension Service and general community members including farmers, as well as the mainstream news media agencies, public relations, and IT professionals. Her background in online/print multimedia with decades of direct formal and informal academic environments helps her fluently apply traditional journalistic methods to interactive new media technology, strategically enhancing narrative structure and visual storytelling using current technologies. She creatively navigates new challenges and articulates thoughtful flexible, and analytical problem-solving solutions at above-average speed using best practices. Dara is customer service focused, detail-oriented, ethical, intuitive educator with a proven record for implementing physical, virtual, or blended learning environments.

Paul Vincelli, a plant pathologist at University of Kentucky, serves as Southern SARE's 1862 land grant liaison.

Vincelli serves as lead to the Southern SARE Outreach Team to promote the SARE program among administrators, faculty, staff, and Extension in colleges of agriculture, and other community stakeholders across the region. He also increases collaboration between Southern SARE and the 1862 land grant university partners while working with the 1890 minority and limited-resource outreach specialist on efforts related to historically underserved farmers, ranchers and community stakeholders. Vincelli also collaborates with Southern SARE's Professional Development Program manager on efforts related to strengthening sustainable agriculture efforts at the state level.