RFI Faculty Fellow | Jessica Shoemaker
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02/28/2017
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- [00:00:00.547]I am Jessica Shoemaker
- [00:00:01.649]and I am an Assistant Professor of Law
- [00:00:03.266]at the University of Nebraska.
- [00:00:04.902]I am passionate about rural for a lot of reasons.
- [00:00:07.501]So, I grew up in a rural community.
- [00:00:09.681]I was a 4H kid growing up and always kind of felt that
- [00:00:12.344]connection to place that was really important to me.
- [00:00:15.227]But, right now my greatest personal investment
- [00:00:17.183]is probably that I'm raising my two little girls
- [00:00:19.255]in a small rural town and I care a lot
- [00:00:21.105]about that community being fair and vibrant
- [00:00:25.374]and good place where I want my kids to grow up
- [00:00:28.863]and learn about the world.
- [00:00:30.535]And I want that for all rural communities.
- [00:00:32.455]Before I was even a lawyer,
- [00:00:34.120]much less a law professor,
- [00:00:35.516]I did social justice and community organizing work
- [00:00:38.542]in rural communities in Wyoming and Wisconsin.
- [00:00:41.419]And then I went to law school
- [00:00:43.775]and I did a bunch of different kind of rural related
- [00:00:45.426]practice things.
- [00:00:46.997]So, I've done everything from
- [00:00:48.436]working on land tenure and property questions
- [00:00:51.411]in the American Indian reservation context
- [00:00:53.974]to working at a non-profit with
- [00:00:56.291]focused on family farm issues in rural communities
- [00:00:58.762]and community development.
- [00:01:00.349]And currently, I'm at the law school
- [00:01:01.591]and my research area is focused on law and policy
- [00:01:04.990]in civic engagement and especially as it relates to
- [00:01:07.536]land tenure and land policy
- [00:01:09.305]and how we design and care about rural landscapes
- [00:01:11.876]and rural places.
- [00:01:13.455]So I actually came to the university
- [00:01:15.374]in order to be engaged with the Rural Futures Institute.
- [00:01:18.226]So, I started in 2012 right when the Rural Futures Institute
- [00:01:21.341]got it's start.
- [00:01:24.244]And I was really excited about it
- [00:01:25.737]as this just unique platform that's both focused on
- [00:01:28.811]this important issue
- [00:01:30.108]but also really encourages and supports
- [00:01:32.461]the kind of interdisciplinary and intersectional
- [00:01:34.757]kind of work about these really important questions.
- [00:01:37.997]And I just think that's super exciting
- [00:01:39.951]and has been really fulfilling for me
- [00:01:41.300]but is also just really important for the world.
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