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Katie Trozzo

Assistant Director of Outreach and Engagement, Center for Food Systems and Community Transformation
  • Food Systems Network and Outreach Specialist
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(540) 232-2233

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Katie Trozzo is a Food Systems Network and Outreach Specialist in the Virginia Tech Department of Agricultural, Leadership, and Community Education and serves as Assistant Director of Outreach and Engagement with the Virginia Tech Center for Food Systems and Community Transformation. She also acts as the Virginia Tech-based State Coordinator for the Virginia SARE (Southern Agriculture and Research Education) Program. In these roles, she leads and/or supports several partnership projects that contribute to farm viability, land and water stewardship, and resilient food systems. She draws upon her skillsets in cultural and participatory development, facilitation, network weaving, evaluation, event coordination, and curriculum and training development to help drive these changes.

At the Center, Katie facilitates and supports in-person and virtual programming and serves as the coordinator of the Virginia Beginning Farmer and Rancher Coalition, one of the Center’s signature programs. She also serves as co-lead of the Farming and Food Production Working Group of the Roanoke Foodshed Network.  Over the last 14 years, Katie’s research, extension, and teaching has also made contributions to advancing agroforestry, a suite of land management practices that merge conservation and production.

Education

  • Ph.D., Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Virginia Tech
  • M.S., Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Virginia Tech
  • B.S., Environmental Technology, NC State

 

  • Approaches: Cultural and participatory community development; facilitation; network development; action research; evaluation; and curriculum and training development.
  • Areas of Emphasis: Agroforestry; farmer viability; land and water stewardship; and resilient regional food systems.

  • Trozzo, K. E., J. F. Munsell, J. L. Chamberlain, and W. M. Aust. 2014.  “Potential Adoption of Agroforestry Riparian Buffers Based on Landowner and Streamside Characteristics.” Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 69:2, p140–50. doi:10.2489/jswc.69.2.140.
  • Trozzo, Katie E., John F. Munsell, and James L. Chamberlain. 2014. “Landowner Interest in Multifunctional Agroforestry Riparian Buffers.” Agroforestry Systems 88:4, p 619–29.
  • Trozzo, Katie E., John F Munsell, and James L Chamberlain. 2013. “How to Plan for and Plant Streamside Conservation Buffers with Native Fruit and Nut Trees and Woody Floral Shrubs.” Virginia Cooperative Extension ANR-69P, 20 pgs.
  • Trozzo, Katie E., John F Munsell, and James L Chamberlain.2012. “Native Fruit and Nut Trees and Shrubs of the Virginia Mountains and Piedmont.” Virginia Cooperative Extension ANR-23NP, 5 pgs.
  • Trozzo, Katie E., John F Munsell, and James L Chamberlain. 2012.  “Woody Florals for Income and Conservation.” Virginia Cooperative Extension ANR-22NP, 3 pgs.