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Oct 16, 2014
Chris Slemp is the new Project Officer – Africa for the American Soybean Association’s World Initiative for Human Health program (ASA/WISHH). He provides support for WISHH projects in Africa. Before working at WISHH, Chris served as an agriculture Peace Corps volunteer in Ghana. While serving in the Peace Corps, Chris provided agriculture extension services to a group of cashew farmers in the Brong Ahafo region of Ghana. His efforts focused on improving local farmer capacity through community based initiatives centered on business literacy, best management practices and volunteerism. Chris earned his Master’s degree in forestry from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. His studies focused on improving community capacity for sustainable watershed management in the St. Louis Metro East region.
