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Art Latham,
B.A. Journalism, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Editor, Writer, Photographer, North Carolina State University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Perspectives.
Tel: 919.513.3117
Email: tecolotl@gmail.com |
Biographical Information
Art Latham is associate editor of NC State
University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences quarterly
Perspectives magazine. Raleigh-based
Latham (UNC-CH, 1966, journalism) lived for a decade in multi-cultural
New Mexico, where he wrote
Lost in the Land of Enchantment.
Before moving West, he was
publicity director for Paul Green's
The Lost Colony outdoor drama
in Manteo, NC and journalist for The Greensboro (NC) News-Record, the
Sandusky (Ohio) Register and various other publications.
In 2006, Latham reported on
NCSU's Center for Environmental Farming Systems staff participation in
an agroecology seminar at the Autonomous University of Chapingo, Texcoco,
Mexico. He has trained (en
español) for Plaza Comunitaria e-México implementation, a joint
US/Mexico educational program for Mexican nationals in the US.
Through UNC's Center for
International Understanding, he participated in an in-country
fact-finding tour of Mexico.
Latham was a CNNC Research Fellow and AmeriCorps
ACCESS Project Professional Corps Member during 2006-07 and continues as
a research fellow in 2008. He is
working on a "SERA-37: The New Hispanic South" project to develop an
in-country total cultural/linguistic immersion Spanish program to help
NC Cooperative Extension personnel better serve Latino clientele.
Links
URL - www.conevyt.org.mx
Information on Plaza Comunitaria e-México implementation, (joint U.S./Mexico educational program for Mexican nationals in the U.S.
URL - www.cals.ncsu.edu/agcomm/magazine/summer06/crossing.html
A. Latham story for UNC's Center for International Understanding from participation in an in-country fact-finding tour to Mexico City and Oaxaca, Mexico.