09/06/2023
Meet the Cornerstone team!
🐌Claire Dilday
Claire has recently graduated from VCU with an Environmental Studies degree focused on urban agriculture and food justice. She helped develope the Farmers Resource Project for the James River Soil and Water Conservation district and served as a data analyst and co writer for a research team devoted to improving the quality of food pantries in the United States.
🪲Ellanor Milkowski Dahlgren
Ellanor has a background in fine art, focusing on the human relationship to the more than human world. They have held a farming position at Alewife Farm in New York and a teaching Position at Echo Hill Outdoor School. They completed an Americorps term with Richmond Grows Gardens, the community gardens branch of Parks and Rec. They cherish bugs and all of the small critters that fly, wiggle and crawl.
🐝Nicole Shuman
After finishing college, Nicole developed her interest in agriculture by working on small-scale, diversified farms. She went on to earn her MPS from Cornell's International Agriculture and Rural Development Program, for which she developed a bilingual school garden manual during Peace Corps service in Paraguay. Most recently, she served for five years as an Extension Agent with Virginia Cooperative Extension.
We are so grateful and excited to be apart of this incredible project!
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