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. 

Dr. Adam J. Kantrovich received his B.S. and M.S. from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, a Ph.D. from Virginia Tech. Dr. Kantrovich has experience working in the commodity markets at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, with the USDA-APHIS, and has been in higher education for over 25 years. He currently is an Extension Specialist of Agribusiness, the Director of the Clemson University Extension Income Tax School, and Asst. Director of the Clemson Extension Agribusiness Team. Dr. Kantrovich specializes in Farm Management-related topic areas including Financial Analysis, Succession & Transition Planning, Tax Management, The Affordable Care Act, labor and ag policy-related issues, Farm Stress and Mental Health. 

Kate Pigott is a trained mediator and licensed attorney in Michigan. She currently works with Michigan and Florida Agricultural Mediation Programs as their Program Coordinator. Previously, she worked for the Dispute Resolution Center of West Michigan which began her passion for the mediation process. Since 2014, she has worked with farmers and the agricultural community by empowering them to find productive solutions that help everyone move forward. Her purpose is to create a safe space for others to resolve their differences.

Shelbie serves as the Outreach Education Coordinator for the Southwest Center for Agricultural Health, Injury Prevention and Education in Tyler, TX where she creates and disseminates health and safety education for agriculture workers, fisherman, and logging/forestry workers in TX, OK, LA, AR, and NM. She received her Master of Public Health degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler. Her passion for mental health and losing a friend to suicide has led to obtain her Mental Health First Aid Trainer certificate. She uses this expertise to reduce stigma in her community and better serve the needs of ag workers and their families. Her family background in ag and previous experience working for a cattle ranch, has created a deep appreciation for farmers and ranchers. She hopes to own land and animals one day with her husband, Drew.

Carolyn Oldham is the Director of Continuing Education at the Central Appalachian Regional Education and Research Center (CARERC), a NIOSH/CDC funded-university center housed within the College of Agriculture at the University of Kentucky. CARERC focuses on the advancement of occupational safety and health training programs through outreach, education and research. In her work with CARERC and its sister center, the Southeast Center for Agricultural Health and Injury Prevention (SCAHIP), she has worked with fellow researchers, health practitioners and agricultural community members across the state to develop, administer and facilitate the Agricultural Community QPR for Farmers and Farm Families train the trainer program. As of October 2021, the program had trained over 57 trainers and 720 agricultural community members in suicide prevention. This is one of many initiatives the Centers are working on with partners across both the state and southeast region to advance farmer mental health. Carolyn’s work in mental health is informed by not only research and practice but also her lived experiences as a survivor of suicide loss. Her twenty-year career in higher education and academe has focused on evaluation, assessment, accreditation, cultural responsiveness, community partnerships, and teaching.  She is a graduate of Knox College (BA), Northwestern University (MSEd) and University of Kentucky (PhD).

Dr. Heidi Liss Radunovich has been a faculty member in the Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences at the University of Florida since 2002. Currently, she is an Associate Professor and Extension Specialist. Her teaching, research, and Cooperative Extension activities are related to rural and farmer health and mental health, disaster stress, family stress, and military families. Prior to her current position she served as a faculty member at the National Rural Behavioral Health Center at University of Florida, where she focused on rural child and family mental health, school-based prevention and intervention, teen risk behaviors, and disaster stress. Dr. Radunovich completed her undergraduate degree at Washington University, majoring in Psychology and Spanish. Her M.A. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology were earned at the University of South Florida, where she specialized in child and family therapy. She is a licensed psychologist in the state of Florida.

Terasa Younker is a research associate and grant coordinator in the department of Family, Youth, and Community Sciences at the University of Florida. She has an MA from Harvard University and is an instructor in mental health education for the National Alliance for Mental Illness. She has experience as an instructor for the SMART Couples grant, where she provided relationship education. Her current research focuses on mental health interventions in agricultural communities. She also has expertise related to Japanese studies, and has taught Japanese language classes.