RUX Announces the 2023 Cohort
The Kentucky Rural-Urban Exchange (RUX) is pleased to announce the selection of our 2023 leadership cohort. Through a highly competitive application, a RUX review team selected twenty-five new cohort members (RUX 2023-24) to join nineteen returning cohort members (RUX 2022-23), creating a 2023 cohort of forty-four Kentuckians with varied experiences of leadership, career, geography, age, ability, expertise, gender, race, sexuality, culture, and class. These leaders in the arts, agriculture, community development, education, government, health, and business represent all regions of Kentucky, including: Barren, Breckinridge, Campbell, Crittendon, Carter, Daviess, Fayette, Fleming, Franklin, Green, Kenton, Jefferson, Madison, McCracken, Metcalfe, Perry, Rockcastle, Rowan, Warren, & Whitley County! In 2023, the RUX cohort will be hosted in Louisville, Owensboro, and Estill County for Community Intensives Weekends and work with a RUX Steering Committee and staff from Daviess, Estill, Fayette, Letcher, Jefferson, Taylor, McCracken, and Warren County.
Meet our RUX 2023 Cohort:
Priya Alexander (Louisville, Jefferson County), Contea Allan (Louisville, Jefferson County), Bayley Amburgey (Louisville, Jefferson County), Michelle Amos (Louisville, Jefferson County), Emma Anderson (Lexington, Fayette County), Shaelyn Bishop (Greensburg, Green County), Emma Bryan (Louisville, Jefferson County), Adrian Bryant (Lexington, Fayette County), Cheryl Burks-Mc Carthy (Owensboro, Daviess County), Bernard Clay (Berea, Madison County), Natasha Collier (Lexington, Fayette County), Ryan Combs (Louisville, Jefferson County), Jody Dahmer (Louisville, Jefferson County), Dorothea Davis (Paducah, McCracken County), LaToya Drake (Glasgow, Barren County), Alexis Erskine (Bowling Green, Warren County), Ceirra Evans (Louisville, Jefferson County), Isaac Fosl-van Wyke (Louisville, Jefferson County), Joe Gallenstein (Covington, Kenton County), Grae Greer (Owensboro, Daviess County), Hannah Gregory (Dayton, Campbell County), Eleanor Hasken-Wagner (Frankfort, Franklin County), Dan Heckel (Owensboro, Daviess County), Annette Hines (Fleming County), Levi House (Louisville, Jefferson County), John Hurley (Mount Vernon, Rockcastle County), Christa Iwu (Louisville, Jefferson County), Amanda James (Louisville, Jefferson County), Emily Kicklighter (Louisville, Jefferson County), Lorna Mangus (Morehead, Rowan County), Talleri McRae (Louisville, Jefferson County), Lexie Millikan (Marion, Crittenden County), Tom Morton (Louisville, Jefferson County), Rachel Noble-Varney (Lexington, Fayette County), Darryl Parker (Hazard, Perry County), Amy Le Ann Richardson (Olive Hill, Carter County), Angela Rowe (Morehead, Rowan County), Rae Strobel (Rhodelia, Breckinridge County), Jessica Taylor (Lexington, Fayette County), Josh Teague (Corbin, Whitley County), T’Von Terry (Louisville, Jefferson County), Luisa Trujillo (Louisville, Jefferson County), Robin Verson (Edmonton, Metcalfe County), Ashtin Warren (Owensboro, Daviess County).
With Thanks!
RUX was founded in 2014 as a partnership between Art of the Rural and Appalshop; we appreciate funding support in 2023 from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Mercatus Center Program on Pluralism and Civil Exchange at George Mason University, the W.L. Lyons Brown Foundation, Owensboro Health, The Greater Clark Foundation, the Marilyn and William Young Foundation, and the Lawrence and Augusta Hager Educational Foundation.
The 2023 program is planned in partnership with a statewide steering committee, local host committees, and in partnership with the Kentucky Arts Council, Kentucky Folklife Program, Estill Development Alliance, The Public Life Foundation, Fund for the Arts, Hood to the Holler, Kentucky Performing Arts, Louisville Free Public Library, Louisville Metro Government, The Filson Historical Society, Alight Marketing Agency, The Food Literacy Project, the International Center of Kentucky, the Transit Authority of River City (TARC), and the Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute at the University of Louisville.