Meet Your National Partner Leadership (10:45A-11:15A & 11:30A-12:00P)
NAE4-HYDP – Suzanne Boarts is the current President of NAE4-HYDP. 
She is an Area 4-H Educator for Pennsylvania State University and has been an educator for the past 23 years.  Currently Suzanne is serving as the JCEP/Extension Leadership Conference Co-Chair.  During COVID, one of her most successful projects was working with Food, Family and Health Educators to offer the Virtual Pennsylvania and National 4-H Cooking Challenges.  Suzanne has two adult children, Bryan and Ingrid, who bring great joy to her life along with her husband of 29 years.

Toolkit Sessions (1:30P-2:30P & 2:45P-3:45P)
Access, Equity, and Belonging

Presenters:

• Katherine Soule, Assistant Vice Provost of UC Cooperative Extension, Director of UC Cooperative Extension & Youth, Families & Communities Advisor in San Luis Obispo & Santa Barbara Counties, University of California
• Nia Imani Fields, Assistant Director and Maryland 4-H Program Leader, University of Maryland
• Fe Moncloa, 4-H Youth Development Advisor, University of California
• Melissa Scheer, Field Specialist in Youth Development, University of Missouri

The 4-H Program Leaders Working Group, Access, Equity and Belonging Committee (AEBC) will provide a rubric for assessing program’s capacity to support the implementation of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives for 4-H state and local program. Additionally, participants will be introduced to evidence-based fact sheets to inform access, equity, and belonging in their programs.