Olivia is the Behavioral Health Specialist and lead on suicide prevention training programs at AgriSafe. She received her master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health & Guidance in 2022. Olivia provides QPR and CALM trainings that focus on the unique stressors that those in agriculture experience.

In addition to her role at AgriSafe, Olivia is a licensed professional counselor (provisional). She works in clinical private practice with adolescents, couples, and adults. Olivia specializes in youth, couples counseling, trauma, anxiety, and depression. She also has experience working with young adults with autism and Down syndrome. Her personal interests include reading, figure skating, and embroidering on the weekends.

Shaped by Linda’s experience as a Registered Nurse working in rural communities as well as her proprietorship of a three generational Nebraska family farm, Linda naturally connects as an advocate and educator with agriculture producers and health care professionals.  As the Community Health Director of the AgriSafe Network, she is responsible for curriculum design and outreach for the Veteran Farmer program, Total Farmer Health Coach program, and Women’s health. Her work is promoted on a state, regional and national level through webinars, onsite presentations, publications as well as user-friendly resources. Her passion to support the total farmer health concept drives her to act as a liaison between research and practice.

Linda has a diverse background in acute care nursing, intensive care, pediatrics, home health care, and  rural primary care clinics. She is an AgriSafe Nurse Scholar, and a Nebraska LEAD fellow. She belongs to the American Nurses Association, Rural Nurses Organization, and Nebraska Nurses Association.  She and her husband own and operate a row crop farming operation that has welcomed back their sons and families to continue a legacy.

Dr. Tara Haskins oversees partnerships to support AgriSafe’s Total Farmer Health initiative. She is also responsible for AgriSafe’s mental health programming. Tara contributes to curriculum design and implements new Total Farmer Health trainings that optimize and expand upon existing programs. She collaborates with organizations and government agencies that are interested in using the Total Farmer Health model as a public health framework. 

Tara has worked in healthcare as a registered nurse for 37 years with clinical experience in medical surgical, critical care, crisis intervention and opioid and alcohol outpatient treatment. Dr. Haskins worked for 11 years in academia as lead faculty in musculoskeletal and psychiatric mental health nursing content across three universities. 

Carey Portell grew up as a cowgirl in Mid Missouri and turned cattle farmer when she married her husband.  She now travels the nation as a professional speaker after enduring a four-year recovery from being hit by an impaired driver. Carey has joined The AgriSafe Network as a TFHC, becoming certified as a QPR trainer.  She also works and advocates on the AgriStress Helpline as she understands the mental health struggles from her recovery as well as working in the agriculture industry.

Laura received her master’s degree in Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication from James Madison University in 2021, with a concentration in Health and Scientific Communication. Her professional interests include supporting her local ag. community, increasing public health literacy, and decreasing the stigmas surrounding mental health disorders and substance use disorders.

Laura’s current projects include script arranging for AgriSafe’s Talking Total Farmer Health podcast, copyediting a broad range of content,  developing digital content, helping with health communication initiatives, and marketing materials, and assisting the Web Technologies Librarian with website accessibility and digital content management.

Dr. Brent Moore completed his undergraduate studies at Northwestern Oklahoma State University, his MS and DVM at Oklahoma State University, and his MPH from the University of Florida. He earned board certification by the American College of Veterinary Preventative Medicine in 2016. After graduating veterinary school in 2006, he worked in small animal veterinary practice in Florida for 14 years prior to joining the DSHS Region 4/5N as a regional Zoonosis Control Veterinarian in February 2020. While in practice, he also volunteered time to the Hernando County Animal Services in Florida, managing disease outbreaks and implementing infection control practices. He was an adjunct professor in Microbiology for the last 3 years prior to moving to Texas. Since 2024, he has lectured zoonotic infectious diseases with the University of Texas at Tyler College of Medicine. Since 2021, he has lectured for the DSHS Preventative Medicine residency program, since 2022, the UT-Tyler Occupational Health residency program, and 2024, the UT-Tyler Preventative Medicine residency program. During his 6 years as an MS and DVM student, he worked in at the Oklahoma Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory as a research assistant and laboratory technologist in Serology, Virology, Bacteriology, and Mycology, which expanded his interests in public health and infectious diseases. Dr. Moore’s professional interests include surveillance of vector-borne diseases, tracking risks and trends of Brucella suis, and education.

Olivia is the Behavioral Health Specialist and lead on suicide prevention training programs at AgriSafe. She received her master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health & Guidance in 2022. Olivia provides QPR and CALM trainings that focus on the unique stressors that those in agriculture experience.

In addition to her role at AgriSafe, Olivia is a licensed professional counselor (provisional). She works in clinical private practice with adolescents, couples, and adults. Olivia specializes in youth, couples counseling, trauma, anxiety, and depression. She also has experience working with young adults with autism and Down syndrome. Her personal interests include reading, figure skating, and embroidering on the weekends.

Shaped by Linda’s experience as a Registered Nurse working in rural communities as well as her proprietorship of a three generational Nebraska family farm, Linda naturally connects as an advocate and educator with agriculture producers and health care professionals.  As the Community Health Director of the AgriSafe Network, she is responsible for curriculum design and outreach for the Veteran Farmer program, Total Farmer Health Coach program, and Women’s health. Her work is promoted on a state, regional and national level through webinars, onsite presentations, publications as well as user-friendly resources. Her passion to support the total farmer health concept drives her to act as a liaison between research and practice.

Linda has a diverse background in acute care nursing, intensive care, pediatrics, home health care, and  rural primary care clinics. She is an AgriSafe Nurse Scholar, and a Nebraska LEAD fellow. She belongs to the American Nurses Association, Rural Nurses Organization, and Nebraska Nurses Association.  She and her husband own and operate a row crop farming operation that has welcomed back their sons and families to continue a legacy.

Dr. Tara Haskins oversees partnerships to support AgriSafe’s Total Farmer Health initiative. She is also responsible for AgriSafe’s mental health programming. Tara contributes to curriculum design and implements new Total Farmer Health trainings that optimize and expand upon existing programs. She collaborates with organizations and government agencies that are interested in using the Total Farmer Health model as a public health framework. 

Tara has worked in healthcare as a registered nurse for 37 years with clinical experience in medical surgical, critical care, crisis intervention and opioid and alcohol outpatient treatment. Dr. Haskins worked for 11 years in academia as lead faculty in musculoskeletal and psychiatric mental health nursing content across three universities. 

Nancy Simcox is an Associate Teaching Professor and the Director of the Occupational Safety and Health Continuing Education Program (OSHCE) at the University of Washington. She develops and delivers research-based education programs for professionals in the environmental, health, and safety fields, including industrial hygienists, physicians, nurses, and safety engineers. She oversees the creation of new educational programs that address emerging issues identified by workers, employers, and the practice community. Recent programs have covered topics such as forestry and agricultural risks, workplace violence, leadership development, Total Worker Health, and infectious disease prevention.

With over 25 years of experience, Ms. Simcox conducts workplace site visits, designs exposure assessment protocols for evaluation, intervention, and research, and performs data reduction and statistical analysis for health-based research projects. Her research and teaching interests include occupational health intervention research, exposure assessment, safer chemical alternatives, indoor air quality, built environments, pesticides, and healthy home initiatives.

Heather M. Brandt, PhD directs the HPV Cancer Prevention Program at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. She is co-associate director for outreach in the St. Jude Comprehensive Cancer Center and full member in the department of epidemiology and cancer control. She is a faculty affiliate in the University of Memphis School of Public Health and University of South Carolina Arnold School of Public Health. As a social and behavioral scientist, her research interests address disparities in cancer prevention and control and specifically working with partners and thought leaders to effectively use what we know works to increase HPV vaccination coverage.

Jennifer Cervantes, LCSW-S, is the Director of Community Outreach and Education for the Meyer Center for Developmental Pediatrics and Autism at Texas Children’s Hospital and is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX. In addition to direct clinical social work services for children with developmental diagnoses and their families, Jennifer works with learners from various disciplines as well as community professionals to provide competent, inclusive, and ethical care to neurodiverse individuals and their families. She also serves as a field instructor for social work student interns and is a board-approved clinical supervisor for those Licensed Master Social Workers pursuing clinical licensure in Texas. Jennifer is the current co-chair of the Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics Advocacy Committee and was the 2023 recipient of the University of Houston Clear Lake’s Early Career Achievement Award. Her other professional experience includes work in the areas of foster care and adoption, the criminal justice system, school-based social work, and the provision of private therapy service

Dinah Godwin, LCSW-S, is the Director of Social Work for the Meyer Center for Developmental Pediatrics and Autism at Texas Children’s Hospital.  Dinah is nationally recognized for providing clinical social work services for children with developmental diagnoses and their families. In addition to her clinical role, she facilitates educational groups for families as well as multidisciplinary professionals from a wide range of disciplines. As an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine, Dinah educates pediatric residents, developmental-behavioral pediatric fellows, social work interns, and trainees from other disciplines. Her other professional experience includes community outreach and education, program development and evaluation, grant writing, and grants management. Dinah is a current board member for the Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, the first social worker to sit on this board, and has been recognized for her excellence in teaching and evaluation through receipt of a Norton Rose Fulbright Faculty Excellence award. University of Houston Clear Lake also named Dinah as field instructor of the year for excellence in her work with social work student interns.

Stephen is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and 4th generation farmer. He currently provides therapy for agricultural families via telehealth in multiple areas within the western United States.

Alana Knudson, PhD, serves as a Senior Fellow in the Public Health Research Department at NORC at the University of Chicago and is the Director of NORC’s Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis. She has over 30 years of experience leading health research studies, evaluating program effectiveness, and translating findings into practice. Alana’s passion is to make a meaningful difference in the health and well-being of rural residents and other underserved populations.

Makenzie Atherton, MPH, has served at the Content Development Coordinator at the Rural Health Information Hub (RHIhub) since 2019. She has 10 years of experience working with rural health issues, which ranges from addressing and meeting the information needs of rural communities and partners working to improve rural population health, evaluating rural programs, and working directly with emergency medical services (EMS), first responders, and hospitals on a rural healthcare delivery grant across a seven-state region.

Sarah Dauterive, MLIS, is an Information Specialist at the Rural Health Information Hub (RHIhub) where she maintains the Online Library on a variety of topics including agricultural health and safety and rural violence and abuse. For 13 years she has worked on content curation, information architecture, web design, and information retrieval in various academic libraries and nonprofit organizations.

Dr. Karen Mason is a Professor of Counseling and Psychology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary—Hamilton where she has prepared students to be licensed mental health counselors since 2006. She is a native of Colorado (and loves to ski and hike). She completed an M.A. in Old Testament at Denver Seminary and an M.A. and Ph.D. in counseling psychology at the University of Denver. She is a licensed psychologist. Before moving to Massachusetts, she managed the Office of Suicide Prevention at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. Her research is focused on faith leaders and faith communities’ role in suicide prevention.

Melinda Moore is a Licensed Psychologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Eastern Kentucky University. She holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from The Catholic University of America, where she trained in the Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS) and conducted research on CAMS. She regularly trains clinicians in CAMS, as well as advocates on behalf of suicide prevention nationally. She has conducted military suicide bereavement research at the University of Kentucky and suicide treatment research at the Robley Rex Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Louisville. Her interest in Posttraumatic Growth emerged from her own experience with suicide and the changes that experience created within her allowing for her current career path and personal interests and relationships.

Hannah Guenther is a Rural Health Extension Educator for the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. Hannah began her career in Extension in June 2018 after leaving her Family and Consumer Science classroom. She has a degree in Dietetics from the University of Nebraska – Lincoln and a master’s degree in education from the University of Nebraska – Kearney and is currently working on a Rural Focused MPH through UC-Berkeley. Hannah prides herself in being an avid sleeper and loves having the opportunity to help Nebraskans sleep better

Jordan Luxa is a Food, Nutrition, and Health Extension Educator for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she focuses on healthy youth and families, early care and education, public health, food access, and farm to school.  She began her career with Extension in July 2019 after leaving her role as a registered dietitian working in the clinical field. She received both her Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Nutrition & Health Sciences from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Jordan serves in a volunteer capacity with the Nebraska Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics, working to advance the profession. In her free time she enjoys cooking, reading, walking, and sleeping (when her one year old lets her!).