Maggie Norton
Position
- Program Manager - Agriculture & Strategic Initiatives
Maggie Norton is a project manager with the Bioeconomy Institute (BEI) at Iowa State University. She oversees multi-institutional transdisciplinary projects related to perennial land cover and biogas production. She is a proponent of collaborative and participatory natural resource management and believes that a broad exchange of knowledge, lived experiences and values are critical to building resilient agricultural systems and communities.
Before joining the Bioeconomy Institute, Maggie helped Practical Farmers of Iowa members share their experiences and knowledge with diverse audiences as the organization's farmer outreach coordinator. In 2019, Maggie completed her Master of Science in Rural Sociology and Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University. She is originally from northeastern Pennsylvania and received her undergraduate education in Earth and Soil Sciences at Pennsylvania State University.
Before joining the Bioeconomy Institute, Maggie helped Practical Farmers of Iowa members share their experiences and knowledge with diverse audiences as the organization's farmer outreach coordinator. In 2019, Maggie completed her Master of Science in Rural Sociology and Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University. She is originally from northeastern Pennsylvania and received her undergraduate education in Earth and Soil Sciences at Pennsylvania State University.
Contact
Email
norton@iastate.edu
Phone
570-529-0112
1140 Biorenewables Research
617 Bissell Road
Ames
,
Iowa
50010
Education
- M.S., Rural Sociology, Iowa State University, 2019.
- M.S., Sustainable Agriculture, Iowa State University, 2019.
- B.S., Environmental Resource Management, Pennsylvania State University, 2011.
- B.S., Earth Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, 2011.