AG WOMEN'S NETWORK

Le francais suit. Jeannine Messier has been a farmer and entrepreneur in the Montérégie region of Quebec for the last 30 years. She has an active role in her family, her community, municipal government, and as an advocate for women in agriculture in Quebec. She is currently the president of the Agricultrices du Québec (Women Farmers of Quebec). Please tell us a bit about yourself and your career path. I am a mother, daughter, and wife of a farmer; I grow high bush blueberries

Please tell us a bit about yourself and your career path. I grew up in Lethbridge in the city and wasn’t involved in farming at all. I went to the University of Lethbridge and got a degree in kinesiology and HR management. I started my career in Edmonton in the kinesiology field and did personal training. From there, I ended up taking a job with an engineering firm in an HR assistant role and that’s how I ended up in the HR field. I worked with the engineering firm for a bit,

Sara Mann is working in a niche area of research, but one that is critical to the Canadian agriculture industry. An associate professor at the University of Guelph in the College of Business and Economics, Sara not only studies rural and agricultural human resource problems, but also brings new resources and training back to the industry. Sara says the career path that lead her to human resource research was not planned, but rather a series of opportunities that were the righ