Kathy Draeger
Clinton, MN
draeg001 @ umn.edu
Kathy Draeger is statewide director of the U of MN Extension Regional Sustainable Development Partnerships. She has worked with MISA on a wide variety of projects like the Commercial Kitchen Guide and now the Farm to Rural Grocery toolkit that is being disseminated throughout the state. Kathy is Principal Investigator on a novel bidirectional supply chain for local foods, USDA-NIFA-AFRI and a Good Food Access Program project to support rural grocery stores with research and outreach. In addition to working for the U of M, Kathy lives and farms (with her family) in Big Stone County, Minnesota and is a board director of the rural electric cooperative, Agralite.