BRWIA is dedicated to empowering women and their families with resources, education and skills related to farming to overcome economic and social disparities that create barriers and make their children a population at-risk.
Based in Boone, North Carolina, BRWIA serves members across the High Country of the state.
Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture began as a grassroots project of Watauga County Extension by women tired of hearing "that can't be done." We are seeking to create working partnerships with groups who have related goals in agricultural endeavors, present entrepreneurial and sustainable agriculture workshops, and organize planning and research for a Community Food Assessment.
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Chilton Rogers
Ms. Chilton Rogers is currently the Assistant Director of the Appalachian Regional Development Institute (ARDI), an outreach and service program of Appalachian State University in Boone, NC.
She has extensive work experience in the public sector with research and empirical aspects of economic, especially entrepreneurial, development and small business and business incubator development as Assistant Director of the Southern Technology Council, a subsidiary group of the Southern Growth Policies Board in Research Triangle Park, NC and as Innovation Director of the North Carolina Technological Development Authority in Raleigh, NC.
Before joining ARDI in February 1999, she was co-owner and business manager of an automobile dealership in Chapel Hill for 11 years.
Ms. Rogers, a journalism and political science undergraduate major, earned a J.D. degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1983) and an M.A. from The George Washington University School of Public and International Affairs (1981).
