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| SU Ag Center Vice Chancellor for Extension and Outreach, Dr. Dawn Mellion-Patin, has been named the 2019 T. M. Campbell Leadership Award recipient by Tuskegee University. |
Baton Rouge, La. – Dawn
Mellion-Patin, Ph.D., Vice Chancellor for Extension and Outreach at the Southern
University Ag Center, has been selected as the 2019 T. M. Campbell Leadership
Award recipient by Tuskegee University’s Farmers Conference awards committee.
The award is given each year during Tuskegee’s
Farmers Conference Awards Luncheon in honor of Thomas Monroe Campbell, the
first person appointed as an Extension Agent in the United States.
To qualify for the award, recipients
must exhibit professional and volunteer work, interact with 1890 Universities
as well as other universities to impact Extension/Outreach, demonstrate
involvement in public service activities to advance the quality of life for
rural citizens and receive recognitions from peer groups for services rendered.
“It is an honor to receive the
Thomas Monroe Campbell Leadership Award from Tuskegee University,” said Patin. “To
be recognized by both a prominent HBCU and an 1862 University, within a few
months of each other, has truly inspired me to continue my work of providing the
rural citizens of Louisiana with the agricultural tools needed to improve their
lives.”
In October, Patin received the 2018
George Washington Carver Distinguished Service Award from Iowa State
University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Patin has served as the Vice
Chancellor for Extension and Outreach at the SU Ag Center since 2016. She developed
the Center’s Small Farmer Agricultural Leadership Training Institute, an
intensive leadership development program that guides small, minority,
socially-disadvantaged and limited-resource farmers through the process of
becoming competitive agricultural entrepreneurs.
Her work in the field of agriculture
has provided her with the opportunity to serve as a panel manager for the United
States Department of Agriculture (USDA); chair of the Southern Region-
Agricultural and Natural Resources Program Leaders Committee; grant committee
member for the USDA’s National Institute
of Food and Agriculture (NIFA); 1890 representative on the National Extension
Disaster Education Network Executive Committee and historian for the National
Society of Minorities in Agricultural, Natural Resources and Related Sciences
(MANRRS) organization.
She earned a bachelor’s degree in
Plant and Soil Sciences, a master’s degree in Educational Agriculture, both
from Southern University, and a doctoral degree in Agricultural and Life
Sciences Education from Iowa State University.
Patin received the T. M. Campbell
Leadership Award on February 21 during Tuskegee University’s 127th
Annual Farmers Conference at the Doubletree Hotel in Montgomery, Alabama.
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