Join GARC for Ask-A-Pro at the Appalachian Studies Association Conference. 

UK is one of only a handful of R1 universities serving the Appalachian region. "Ask-A-Pro" offers conference participants ready access to the expertise of university researchers, activists, artists, community organizers, and professors!

Panelists include:

Ivy Brashear, Appalachian Transition Director, Mountain Association forCommunity Economic Development

Doug Boyd, Director Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History,University of Kentucky

Joe F. Childers, Attorney, Joe F. Childers and Associates

Jennifer Cramer, Associate Professor, Linguistics, University of Kentucky

Mary Varson Cromer, Deputy Director, Appalachian Citizens’ Law Center, and Martin

County Concerned Citizens (MCCC)

Ricki Draper, Community Engagement Coordinator, Livelihoods Knowledge Exchange

Network (LiKEN) and MCCC

Nina McCoy, Community Organizer, MCCC

Mickey McCoy, Community Organizer, MCCC

Jason Unrine, Associate Professor, Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Kentucky

Meredith Wadlington, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth chapter organizer