People invovlved with the Project

People and Organizations

The Southern Tobacco Communities Project involves many people from many different organizations. This is a partial list of key people who can be contacted for more information and their organizations.

Margie Siegal (IQ Health), Andre Stanley (American Medical Association's SmokeLess States Project), and Rebecca Reeve (IQ Health) with Virginia's plaque from the American Medical Association's SmokeLess States National Project Office. Photo taken at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Princeton, New Jersey.

Facilitators:

Institute for Environmental Negotiation (IEN)

IEN is a research, teaching and service arm of the University of Virginia. Founded in 1981, the IEN provides convening, facilitation, and mediation services for natural resource, land use, and environmental issues. IEN seeks to create forums for dialogue, advocacy, understanding, and discovery in areas involving public issues of considerable controversy.

IEN served as convener and facilitator for the 1994-1996 Virginia Tobacco Communities Roundtable. More information about IEN's role in that project.

IEN will again serve as convener and facilitator for the Southern Tobacco Communities Roundtable. IEN facilitators are independent and impartial and will not advocate for a particular party or position. The IEN role has many facets, including:

helping participants design the process which will best fulfill their goals;
preparing and distributing meeting agendas, meeting summaries, and other information for roundtable members;
facilitating discussions such that participants are able to articulate their goals and concerns, understand the goals and concerns of others, identify options which might serve to meet those goals and address those concerns, and help members make choices for themselves;
actively pursuing implementation of ideas that come from these discussions;
serving as point of contact for related activities.

Project director for the Southern Tobacco Communities Roundtable is IEN Associate Director Frank Dukes. Dr. Dukes is a Virginia certified mediator with considerable mediation and facilitation experience. A particular interest, how diverse and often conflicting interests may engage one another productively in civic and community affairs, is documented in his 1996 book, Resolving Public Conflict: Transforming Community and Governance. Dr. Dukes can be reached at (804) 924-1970 or ed7k@virginia.edu.

IEN founder and Director Richard Collins is the Lawrence Lewis Professor of Architecture and former chair of the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning. His case work includes policy dialogues, strategic plans, regulatory negotiation, and community and forest plans. Dr. Collins will serve as facilitator of the Roundtable along with Dr. Dukes. Dr. Collins can be reached at (804) 924-1970 or rcc3f@virginia.edu.

Research:

Rural Economic Research Analysis Program (REAP)

REAP, in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech, provides economic information to private sector decision makers and state level policy makers to help in strategic planning for the future of agriculture and rural economies throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia. REAP releases the results of economic analyses and conducts educational programs to help ensure competitiveness, economic viability, and quality of life in rural communities.

For the Southern Tobacco Communities Project, REAP will develop a model tobacco adjustment matrix for tobacco producing communities and will initiate the development of a training process for dissemination of the model across the southern region.

REAP was also involved with the 1994-1996 Virginia Tobacco Communities Roundtable. More information on their role in that program.

The main contact for REAP's involvement in this project is Dr. Wayne Purcell, a professor Virginia Tech's Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics. Dr. Purcell can be reached at (540) 231-7725 or purcell@vt.edu.

Institute for Quality Health (IQ Health)

IQ Health, associated with University of Virginia Health Services Foundation, develops programs which pursue the well-being of the individual and population by promoting healthy lifestyles, reducing risk of injury and disease, and screening for diseases. IQ Health was involved with the 1994-1996 Virginia Tobacco Communities Roundtable. More information about their involvement in that project.

The Principle Investigator for the Southern Tobacco Communities Project is R. Michael Morse, who is part of UVa Family Medicine. The main contact and Project Director for IQ Health's effort on this project is Rebecca Reeve. Rebecca Reeve has extensive experience in educational design, delivery, and evaluation. She can be reached at (804) 979-9355 or rhr5c@virginia.edu.

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