Extension Center for Youth Development
Staff Directory

Leadership

Dale Blyth, Director
Phone: (612) 624-2188
Email: blyth004@umn.edu
Dorothy McCargo Freeman, State 4-H Program Leader and Assistant Director
Phone: (612) 625-2440
Email: freemand@umn.edu
Sandy Rand, Associate Administrator, Blyth
Phone: (612) 624-8426
Email: randx001@umn.edu

Center Staff

Tyler Ahnemann, 4-H State Program Manager, SET & Healthy Living
Phone: (612) 624-7999
Email: ahnem001@umn.edu

Gina Allen, Research and Evaluation Graduate Assistant
Phone: (612) 624-8192
Email: allen427@umn.edu

Scott Balaban, Technology Assistant
Phone: (612) 624-1093
Email: bala0087@umn.edu
Janet Beyer , Area Program Leader, Community Youth Development
Phone: (612) 624-1972
Email: beyer010@umn.edu
Tamara Borchardt, Executive Administrative Specialist, Freeman
Phone: (612) 624-8415
Email: borch075@umn.edu
Tamie Bremseth, Area Program Leader, 4-H Youth Development
Phone: (507) 337-2800
Email: brems002@umn.edu

Kristin Busch, Student Worker
Phone: (612) 624-2261
Email: busch105@umn.edu
Colleen Byrne, Executive Administrative Specialist, MN Youth Work Institute
Phone: (612) 624-9109
Email: byrne015@umn.edu
Yi Cao, Graduate Assistant
Phone: (612) 624-7974
Email: caoxx063@umn.edu
Omar Bundid Da’ar, Research and Evaluation Graduate Assistant
Phone: (612) 624-8192
Email: daarx002@umn.edu
Jim Deidrick, Volunteer Leadership Development Educator
Phone: (612) 624-7171
Email: deidr001@umn.edu
Kirstin Delp , State Arts-In Director
Email: delpk1@msn.com
Trudy Dunham, Coordinator, CYFERnet
Phone: (612) 624-8181
Email: dunha003@umn.edu
Cecilia Frost Gran, Associate Program Director, MN Youth Work Institute
Phone: (612) 624-9117
Email: granx008@umn.edu

Nancy Hegland, Area Program Leader, 4-H Youth Development
Phone: (651) 480-7788
Email: nhegland@umn.edu

Lee Hosman, Web Development Student - Dunham
Email: hosma002@umn.edu
Wendy Huckaby, Communications Manager
Phone: (612) 624-4333
Email: huckaby@umn.edu
Becky Koch
Phone: (612) 624-1093
Email: kochx188@umn.edu
Laura LaCroix-Dalluhn, Executive Director for Youth Community Connections
Phone: (612) 626-3513
Email: laura@youthcommunityconnections.org
Alicia Liebel
Email: lieb0128@umn.edu
Abigail Lochner, State Program Mgr, Citizenship, Leadership & Expressive Arts
Phone: (612) 624-2581
Email: abbyloch@umn.edu
Ann Lochner, Associate Program Director, Research and Evaluation
Phone: (612) 624-8190
Email: lochn006@umn.edu
Todd Mehrkens, Director of Information Technology Services
Phone: (612) 624-8191
Email: toddmehr@umn.edu
Cecilia Meade, Executive Adminstrative Specialist, Youth Community Connections
Phone: (612) 624-6600
Email: cam@umn.edu
Deborah Moore , Associate Program Director, MNYWI
Phone: (612) 625-7813
Email: ddm2@umn.edu
Karen Nelson, Executive Administrative Specialist
Phone: (612) 624-8197
Email: nelso367@umn.edu
Pamela Larson-Nippolt, Program Design Educator
Phone: (612) 624-8445
Email: nippolt@umn.edu
Ann Nordby
Phone: (612) 624-5781
Email: nordby@umn.edu
Marika Pfefferkorn , Comminuty Program Associate, MNYWI
Phone: (612) 623-3633
Email: marikap@umn.edu

Brad Rugg, 4-H Program Coordinator
Phone: (612) 624-8443
Email: ruggx002@umn.edu

Amber Runke, State 4-H Events Coordinator
Phone: (612) 624-8198
Email: runk0014@umn.edu
Rebecca Saito, Senior Analyst
Phone: (612) 624-8106
Email: saito015@umn.edu
Kathryn Sharpe
Phone: (612) 624-7562
Email: shar0056@umn.edu

Byron Schneider, Associate Professor, EdPA
Phone: (612) 624-2590
Email: schne003@umn.edu

Brenda Shafer, Area Program Leader, 4-H Youth Development
Phone: (218) 236-2010
Email: shafe006@umn.edu

Amy Shaffer, Executive Administrative Specialist, Carlson & Marczak
Phone: (612) 624-8193
Email: ashaffer@umn.edu

Terri Sullivan, Howland Endowed Chair
Phone: (612) 624-8113
Kim Thompson, Executive Administrative Specialist, admin unit
Phone: (612) 624-7774
Email: thomp037@umn.edu
Joyce A. Walker, Community Youth Development Educator
Phone: (612) 624-8449
Email: walke007@umn.edu
Kate Walker, Research Associate
Phone: (612) 624-7988
Email: kcwalker@umn.edu
Jeanne Zimmer, Evaluation Fellows Graduate Assistant
Phone: (612) 624-7925
Email: zimme285@umn.edu
 

Minnesota 4-H Foundation Staff
Cara Miller, Executive Director
Phone: (612) 624-8132
Email: cmmiller@umn.edu
Marlene Eskelson, Executive Administrative Specialist
Phone: (612) 624-7971
Email: eskel007@umn.edu
Beth Neil, Student Worker, Foundation
Phone: (612) 625-8620
Email: neilx019@umn.edu
Susan Potratz, Database Administrator
Phone: (612) 624-7971
Email: potra007@umn.edu
Margit Hauge, Bookkeeper
Phone: (612) 624-7909
Email:
Sarah Jensen, Accountant
Phone: (612) 624-7909
Email: jense216@umn.edu

Urban Youth Development Office

495 Coffey Hall
1420 Eckles Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55108

Jennifer Skuza, Director, Urban 4-H Youth Development Program and Professor
Phone: (612) 624-7798
Email: skuza@umn.edu
Richard Moreland, Regional Extension Educator
Phone: (612) 624-7462
Email: morel002@umn.edu
Nickyia Cogshell, Regional Extension Educator
Phone: (612) 624-7758
Email: cogsh001@umn.edu
Mimi Erenberg, Urban 4-H Program Coordinator
Phone: (612) 624-7465
Email: erenberg@umn.edu
Erica Gates, Urban 4-H Program Coordinator
Phone: (612) 624-7603
Email: gates015@umn.edu
Maki Kawase, Urban 4-H Program Coordinator
Phone: (612) 624-7562
Email: kawa0034@umn.edu
Jessica Russo, Urban 4-H Program Coordinator
(612) 624-7625
Email: pier0239@umn.edu
Judy Wirebaugh, Executive Office and Administrative Specialist
Phone: 612-624-7626
Email: wireb001@umn.edu