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David C. Campbell

DAVID C. CAMPBELL

David Campbell is a political scientist who serves as a Cooperative Extension Specialist in Community Studies and as Director of the California Communities Program (CCP) in the Human and Community Development Department at UC Davis. His research examines the intersection between public policy and community development processes at the local level focusing on governance, civic engagement, citizenship, and economic development. Since 1997 he has served as lead investigator for an ongoing study of how welfare reform is being implemented in six California counties. He also serves as the evaluator for a foundation-funded project that aims to increase civic engagement in eight counties as they prepare strategic plans for using tobacco tax (i.e., Prop 10) monies to support children ages 0-5. In recent years he has conducted evaluations of community development initiatives in Humboldt, Lassen, Merced, and Placer counties.

Between 1990 and 1996 he served as community development and public policy analyst for the University of California Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. In that role, he served on the steering committee of the California Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture, a collaboration of major sustainable agriculture organizations in the state funded by the Kellogg Foundation's Integrated Farming Systems Initiative. He has taught American government and public administration at UC Davis, Mercer University, and Emory University. A native of east Tennessee, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon in 1984. Since 1989 he has lived in Davis with his wife, a Presbyterian pastor, and his teenage son.

James I. Grieshop

JAMES I. GRIESHOP

James I. Grieshop is a Lecturer and Specialist in Community Education Development in the University of California, Davis's Department of Human and Community Development. He earned his Ph.D. in Foundations of Education from the University of New Mexico in 1973. He also has a Master's Degree in Anthropology from the State of New York, College at Binghamton, which he earned in 1969.

Grieshop served in the Peace Corps for two years in Ecuador and taught primary, secondary, and adult classes in rural communities, as well as assisting in rural community development projects. He has also worked for the Home Education Livelihood Programs in Albuquerque and Las Cruces, New Mexico, as its educational coordinator for the Migrant Farmworker Program. At New Mexico State University, Grieshop worked as a Specialist in Cooperative Extension, Community Development from 1974 to 1975, at which time he joined the University of California. As a consultant, he has lent his expertise to A.I.D., the Consortium of International Crop Protection (CICP), and voluntary organizations in Non-formal Education and Communication. He has assisted in developing pesticide safety education programs for small farmers in Latin America and the Caribbean, and has held numerous consultant positions relating to migrant education, vocational, educational, rural and community development, small farm projects, and leadership development, among others.

Grieshop has been honored with numerous awards and fellowships which include: the James H. Meyer Distinguished Achievement Award from the University of California, Davis' Academic Federation, which he received in December 1995; a Fulbright Research Fellowship to Mexico in 1992-93 and to Ecuador in 1984-85; a Special Advisor from the Freedom from Hunger Foundation in Davis, California in 1988-89; and also served as a Visiting Fellow to Cornell University's Department of Education, Ithaca, New York in 1982-83. In addition to using education to help implement social change, his research interests include the use of photographic materials for inducing change in behavior with hazardous materials, motivation as a behavioral factor for productivity, creativity and change, and risk perception. Grieshop is fluent in Spanish.