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My name is Masi Mejia and I am originally from Laredo, Texas. I currently attend Texas Tech University and am a senior Environmental Conservation of Natural Resource major with a minor in Agricultural Leadership. I am extremely excited to be an Ogallala Commons Community Intern for the 2012 summer. My internship consists of two parts: the first of which I will be assisting Maria Miller, Director of Education, from the National Farmers Union. I will be assisting her in various duties involved with the National Farmers Union’s Women conference in Bailey, Colorado. At this conference, rural women are given the skills and training needed to help the family farm with finances, marketing, business planning and various issues facing women on farms today. I will also be assisting Ms.Miller in the All-States Leadership Camp in Bailey, Colorado, where National Farmers Union members ages 17-20 have the opportunity to explore their leadership skills and current issues in hopes of going back to their rural communities to create positive change. The second part of my internship will be taking place at the Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge under Jude Smith. Currently the details of that are still being worked out but one of the main goals is to help organize and plan an educational day under the Ogallala Commons. I hope that while on the Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge, I am exposed to more natural resource management as well as learning the inner workings of a federal agency, and increasing my knowledge of  waterfowl management.




"Masi" Maria Florentina Mejia

Texas Tech University
College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources
Department of Natural Resource Management, Student Assistant
Society for Conservation Biology- Texas Tech Chapter, Vice- President
maria.f.mejia@ttu.edu