Darrell Cox

Current

Executive Director at World Relief Minnesota

Past

International Mentor with Mission: Moving Mountains at The Navigators
Program Director of Dorothy Day Center at Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Mpls
Director of Educational Programs at ECHO

Education Specialist at University of Minnesota
Community Development Worker in East Africa at Mission: Moving Mountains
Associate Professor at North Dakota State University
Visiting Associate Professor at Egerton University

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Education

Iowa State University
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Bemidji State University

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Connections

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Industry

Non-Profit Organization Management

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Darrell Cox’s Summary

My vocational experiences and skills are primarily in the following sectors:

International Development - Mobilizing communities; Leadership development; Training of Trainers; Development interventions in agriculture, preventive health, and microenterprise; Ethnographic research.

Non-profit Organizations - Staff supervision; Budgeting and finance; Grant making and reporting; Program management; Technical writing; Advocacy; Partnership with other agencies.

Higher Education - Research; Teaching, Curriculum development; Extension activities; Publishing articles in scientific journals.

Darrell Cox’s Specialties:

Addressing hunger, poverty, and housing needs; Community Development in Africa; Agro-ecology and Sustainable Agriculture; Facilitation skills for adult learners.

Darrell Cox’s Experience

Executive Director

World Relief Minnesota

(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

September 2009 — Present (4 months)

The mission of World Relief Minnesota is to empower churches to restore the lives of immigrant families.
International Mentor with Mission: Moving Mountains

The Navigators

(Non-Profit; Religious Institutions industry)

October 2004 — December 2008 (4 years 3 months)

M:MM does holistic community development in rural areas of Africa and Asia. International Mentors empower community leaders to mobilize communities to solve their own problems using available resources.
Program Director of Dorothy Day Center

Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Mpls

(Non-Profit; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

2000 — 2003 (3 years )

As Program Director, I supervised staff and volunteers providing services to the homeless and families in crisis in St. Paul MN.
Director of Educational Programs

ECHO

(Food Production industry)

1997 — 2000 (3 years )

ECHO provides technical resources to development workers and others involved in subsistence agriculture in the tropics. I provided supervision for the Intern program.
Education Specialist

University of Minnesota

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

1996 — 1997 (1 year )

Program management for the Sustainable Agriculture graduate minor program and curriculum development.
Community Development Worker in East Africa

Mission: Moving Mountains

(Religious Institutions industry)

1992 — 1995 (3 years )

Language and culture learning; early phases of a community-based development project; administrative duties.
Associate Professor

North Dakota State University

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

1983 — 1992 (9 years )

Research/teaching appointment - research leader for the HRWW improvement (plant breeding) project and instructor for two undergraduate courses. Obtained tenure and promotion.
Visiting Associate Professor

Egerton University

(Higher Education industry)

July 1989 — July 1990 (1 year 1 month)

Egerton is one of the national universities in Kenya. I taught there as part of a USAID sabbatical program.

Darrell Cox’s Education

Iowa State University

Ph.D. , Plant Breeding & Cytogenetics , 1979 — 1983

Activities and Societies:

Teaching Assistant in the Dept. of Agronomy; advisor was Dr. K.J. Frey.
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

M.S. , Plant Pathology , 1976 — 1977

Activities and Societies:

Research Assistant in the Dept. of Plant Pathology; advisor Dr. Roy Wilcoxson.
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

B.S. , Biological Sciences , 1974 — 1975
Bemidji State University

Biology 1972 — 1974

Activities and Societies:

Internship with the MN Dept. of Natural Resources.

Additional Information

Darrell Cox’s Websites:

Darrell Cox’s Interests:

International Relief & Development, Community-based Development; Africa, Asia; Homelessness, Hunger, Poverty; Refugees; Study Abroad, Mentoring, Curriculum Development