RFI Faculty Fellow | Amanda Witte
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- [00:00:00.000]I'm Amanda Witte.
- [00:00:00.873]I'm a project manager at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
- [00:00:04.535]I am passionate about rural
- [00:00:05.839]because it is at the heart of so much of Nebraska,
- [00:00:09.185]so much of the U.S., and so much of the world.
- [00:00:11.974]So many strong communities are rural communities,
- [00:00:15.002]and so much good work happens
- [00:00:16.891]and comes out of rural communities.
- [00:00:19.090]I get to do a lot of really exciting work
- [00:00:21.015]in rural communities, especially in schools.
- [00:00:23.901]I get to work with rural schools and rural families.
- [00:00:27.048]So I think rural is a really critical component
- [00:00:30.751]of the university, and so many of the students
- [00:00:33.409]who come to the university and faculty and staff
- [00:00:36.739]are from rural communities.
- [00:00:38.424]So because Nebraska is a rural community
- [00:00:41.080]and the university is a land grant university,
- [00:00:44.316]I think rural is just at the heart
- [00:00:46.252]of so much of the work that we do.
- [00:00:47.993]So I think RFI has already done such amazing work.
- [00:00:50.939]They have put people in the same room
- [00:00:53.243]who are working on different projects
- [00:00:55.513]but that are related and can really learn from one another.
- [00:00:58.121]So they've set up these great opportunities
- [00:00:59.929]for all of us who are interested in rural
- [00:01:01.693]to get together and learn from one another
- [00:01:03.913]and share back out.
- [00:01:04.929]So I am honored to be an RFI fellow
- [00:01:07.591]in part because I just think the work that RFI does
- [00:01:10.691]is so exciting and so extraordinary
- [00:01:13.223]and really and truly unique.
- [00:01:15.266]I've been really fortunate to have the opportunity
- [00:01:18.886]to work with a lot of really terrific people
- [00:01:20.738]at the university, and I'm super excited
- [00:01:23.154]to also be affiliated with RFI.
- [00:01:25.262]So I think what it means to me
- [00:01:26.553]is that I can have other partners
- [00:01:29.281]who are interested in the work that I do
- [00:01:31.158]and that I hopefully can also give something back
- [00:01:33.443]to the work that RFI is doing.
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