2023 Wisconsin Rural Summit Agenda |
Session | Speaker | About |
Rural Cooperatives: Discussion of Options
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Mark S Baenen, DVM
Spring Green Animal Hospital Cooperative Veterinary Care - A Worker-Owned Cooperative |
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Victoria (Tory) Clark, Executive Director, North Country Foundation | ![]() |
Moderator: Marie Barry, Director of Community Economic Development, Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative |
Make Your City an Age Friendly Community
| Darrin Wasniewski, Associate State Director- Community Outreach, Associate State Director- Community Outreach, AARP
| A New Jersey native, with time in Ohio before moving to Wisconsin, Darrin has spent his professional career building great places for all. He thought his path lie in historic preservation, but an internship with the German Village Society in Columbus, OH, helped him to understand that saving old buildings was a means to creating authentic places and building community. His time in this historic neighborhood just south of downtown, allowed him to experience the power of inter-generational community and shaped his future work. Darrin continued to hone his craft in Orrville, OH through downtown development, nonprofit leadership, and entrepreneurship (he and his wife, Stephanie, opened a natural pet market) and most recently with Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation’s Wisconsin Main Street communities before joining AARP-WI. |
Office of Rural Prosperity WEDC
| Mike Ward, Vice President of Business and Community Development |
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