Congratulations to Ashley Harshbarger for being named the Pennsylvania Center for Dairy Excellence summer intern.
In her position, Harshbarger will help organize activities for the Center for Dairy Excellence and Pennsylvania Dairy Task Force. Two key projects she will coordinate are a social media outreach plan to promote the center and Pennsylvania’s dairy industry and the center’s 2010 series of “Summer Open House and Dairy Tours.”
“Ashley has experience building social media plans and planning events for other Pennsylvania agriculture organizations, and she has served in numerous leadership roles at Penn State and in dairy youth organizations,” said John Frey, executive director of the Center for Dairy Excellence.
Harshbarger is from a dairy farm in Juniata County, where she was active in 4-H and FFA. She was a member of the Pennsylvania Junior Holstein Association where she served as secretary in 2009-2010 and competed in extemporaneous speaking, dairy bowl and dairy jeopardy.
Harshbarger earned a degree in Agricultural and Extension Education and a minor in Animal Science at Penn State. While there, she was active in the Dairy Science Club, Delta Theta Sigma, Coaly Society, and was an Ag Advocate for the College of Agricultural Sciences.
Source: Center for Dairy Excellence