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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.
Research
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