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Stacey McCullough 2024 Bonnie Teater Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient pictured with SRDC Director, Dr. John J. Green
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2023 Annual Report, Empowering Partnerships for Community Development, Southern Rural Development Center, visit srdc.msstate.edu/annual-reports

Rachel Welborn Awarded Institute of Higher Learning (IHL) Diversity, Inclusion Award

Diversity Inclusion winners Rachel Welborn and Christopher Hunter

Recenlty, the Mississippi Board of Trustees of the State Institutions of Higher Learning celebrated Black History Month by holding its annual Diversity and Inclusion Awards ceremony. The IHL Board of Trustees recognized 10 employees from the state’s four-year public universities for their campus and community leadership.

Rachel Welborn, Associate Director of the Southern Rural Develompent Center, was awarded a 2022 IHL Diversity and Inclusion Award for helping identify pressing rural development concerns and facilitating responses in the state, region and nation on critical issues, including poverty, disasters, workforce development, racial reconciliation and internet availability.

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