Strategist
Social Entrepreneur
Institutional & municipal/regional Planner
Policy Analyst and Developer
Fundraiser, Researcher, Farmer
Current
Agromedicine Faculty
Director, NC AgrAbility (www.agrability.org) keeping farmers with disabilities in production North Carolina Agriculutural and Technical State University cacookmarshall at ncat.edu (704) 978-9404 Current research and practice platform at NC A&T Extreme Weather Response: Farms & Farm Communities Rural-urban conflict and space |
Forthcoming in 2023 with Lexington Press of Rowman & Littlefield in their Studies in Urban-Rural Dynamics series: Making and Breaking Big Rural: Single Sector Economies, Democracy, and What Next.
Making and Breaking Big Rural reconceptualizes the economic sectors we take for granted in the 21st Century United States, especially those in single sector rural regions. It analyzes these as large technical systems in order to reveal their developments as deliberate interventions that can be dissected, dismantled, and replaced. Part I examines the historical making of the rural industrial space, or “big rural” and this space’s brittleness as a system, how this system breaks and under what duress, and how big rural may be dismantled. Part II, given hindsight, enters into the remaking of this big rural space from various paths–policy, planning, practice, research. |
Economic Development Greater East (www.edge-us.org)
- Co-founder
- Strategist
- Research Lead
- Research and Innovation complex and space development
- Economic Sector and Infrastructure Development
- Community Grocery Development
Overview
Dr. Cook Marshall specializes in comprehending industrial, corporate, public, or education sectors, and, analyzing how to produce change within and adjacent to those systems.
She has done this in fields as disparate as entertainment, science and technology education, science communications, elementary and secondary education, higher education, sustainable agriculture, nonprofits, regional and state planning, and energy.
Dr. Cook Marshall is adept at providing a systems analysis of an organization, municipality, region, or sector, then matching the areas of change to practical on-the-ground applications and potential.
She has done this in fields as disparate as entertainment, science and technology education, science communications, elementary and secondary education, higher education, sustainable agriculture, nonprofits, regional and state planning, and energy.
Dr. Cook Marshall is adept at providing a systems analysis of an organization, municipality, region, or sector, then matching the areas of change to practical on-the-ground applications and potential.
a couple of Problems Cook Marshall Has solved
Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media
Dr. Cook Marshall reorganized the constituent outreach for the "See Jane" project into a fully fledged organization, "The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media," designed its nonprofit business model and course of action, stewarded its inceptive major donor, and conceived and launched its signature events and mode of outreach and engagement.
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Economic Development Greater East
Dr. Cook Marshall analyzed the inception of the energy sector in Southern West Virginia/Southwest Virginia, mapped its key constituents and their functions, designed a plan for reigniting the region's latent agricultural and woodland harvest potential, piloted field to market product, co-founded a cornerstone institution, and raised funds for its bricks and mortar location and training programs.
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Dr. Cook Marshall specializes in
cross cultural and
cross-discipline communication
multi-organization strategy
policy conceptualization
collaboration across sectors and disciplines
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Ready to work with Dr. cook marshall?
Get in touch about your organization's, business', region's, or town's needs.
crystalcookmarshall@gmail.com
+1 704 978 9404
crystalcookmarshall@gmail.com
+1 704 978 9404
Crystal Cook Marshall
Header photo, photo with pigs, photo in grey hat by Nancy Andrews. Crystal Cook Marshall Copyright © 2023