SU Ag Center’s Donovan Segura to serve as the keynote speaker for Land-Grant Summer Meeting
Donovan L. Segura, Ph.D., Associate Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Title IX at the Southern University Agricultural Research and Extension Center will serve as the keynote speaker for the Association of 1890 Research Directors (ARD) and Southern Association of Agricultural Experiment Station Directors (SAAESD) Summer Meeting.
The meeting will be held August 9-10, 2023 in Atlanta, GA. This will mark the first joint meeting of these two organizations and will focus on the development of impactful programming and relationship building among the 1890 and 1862 institutions at the state and regional levels.
As the keynote speaker, Dr. Segura will demonstrate the importance of building relationships based on trust and mutual respect between the 1890 and 1862 Colleges of Agriculture.
The ARD is the federation of the 19 autonomous 1890 land-grant universities that provides coordination of research initiatives among member 1890 Institutions in cooperation with federal, state, and private partners.
SAAESD is one of five regional associations with responsibilities for facilitating the cooperation of regional and national research.
Dr. Segura also serves a Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration at Southern University and A&M College. In March, he was sworn in as the President-Elect of the Conference of Minority of Public Administrators,
He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, a Master of Arts in Social Science, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Public Policy Administration, all from Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge.