Executive Director of Education. Evidence-based education for all kids to reach their full potential.
St. Louis, MO, USA
Joined November 2018
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ProfessorKris retweeted
Great start to the @BioSTL 2025 ReACH Summit with inspiring remarks by @chrischinn, Director of @MoAgriculture! #ReACH2025
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“The only way to get through education is with food."
- Dr. Robert Jones, chancellor of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and World Food Prize Foundation Council of Advisors.
Those who know why, know how. Believe in the impossible as probable. I’m going to be there, pouring into the community - Jackie Joyner-Kersee
@WorldFoodPrize #foodprize24
Partnership and international diplomacy is essential to maintaining plant diversity.
“Empower the seeds that empower the crops that empower the women who feed the children” - Cary Fowler
@WorldFoodPrize #foodprize24
It’s hard to be educated if you have food insecurity issues. It takes a partnership to make this work -chancellor Robert Jones
@WorldFoodPrize #foodprize24
The more we loose diversity in plants the more important they are. We must collect them. - Stefan Schmitz
Crop security is food security and food security is peace. The right investments will secure our food future forever - Stefan Schmitz
@WorldFoodPrize #foodprize2024
Nutrition can start in the schools when students grow their own food, learn how to prepare and eat it. #worldfoodprize
ProfessorKris retweeted
🌍 A session on Bold Measures to Feed Africa is underway at #BorlaugDialogue2024!
💡 Leading voices, including @AfDB_Group's President and #WorldFoodPrize laureate Dr. @akin_adesina, his delegation including the VP @beth_dunford and others, and @WorldBank President Ajay Banga, are discussing transformative solutions for Africa’s food systems. With #TAAT as a core element of #AfDB’s #FeedAfrica Strategy, we're excited to share how agricultural innovation fuels sustainable growth and food security across the continent. 🌾✨
💬 Advancing bold actions to feed Africa and create lasting change. Join us on this journey!
#WorldFoodPrize #FoodPrize24 #FoodSecurity #BoldActions #TechForGood #EngageTAAT
@WorldFoodPrize
How do we feed the world? Fund infrastructure like technology access, electricity, clean air, and clean water, which leads to young entrepreneurs being able to create jobs. #worldfoodprize
I love watching friends do amazing things, and even more when their amazing things help others. My friend Joseph’s new book is about leadership and work priorities through being laid off and the pandemic. Check it out!
#newbookrelease
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ProfessorKris retweeted
“Food is a right for every human being.” –@dwmiano of @uonbi at #Conversations: Nourishing Our Future
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“Agriculture is a global field, and science doesn’t stop at the borders of one country.” –Saharah Moon Chapotin of
@FoundationFAR at #Conversations: Nourishing Our Future
“The moment we judge someone is the moment we loose the ability to connect with them, love them.” #NSTA2024
🎉 Happy 60 yrs to the Higher Education Consortium of #StLouis! Honored to celebrate the unwavering commitment to making higher ed accessible for historically excluded communities. Here's to continued partnerships and empowering the leaders of tomorrow! #EducationEquity 🌱📚🎓✨
Thrilled to be speaking at #NSTA23 in Kansas City with @JJKFAN educators. We’re empowering East St. Louis youth through culturally responsive mentoring and STEM professional development for out of school time staff.#NSTA #STEMEducation #CommunityImpact @DanforthCenter
📚 Exciting news after 6+ years- our latest research paper🌱
🔬 Community college students have the passion but face doubts about being “biology people” and the vital role of CC courses. 📝
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…
🌟 #STEMEducation #Research #CommunityCollege #BiologyJourney
ProfessorKris retweeted
The inaugural #SABERMidwest conference starts today at the @DanforthCenter in St. Louis, MO!
