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2025 ANREP Annual Business Meeting and Awards Ceremony
5/21/2025
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM EST

Event Description
Join ANREP members via Zoom for this special event. Hear updates about your association and recognize the accomplishments of your peers from around the nation.

Learn from Mike Clardy how Alabama Extension launched a successful campaign to promote its work through a multi-prong approach. Extension personnel across the country often discuss how to raise the visibility of Extension and understanding of their work throughout their states. This presentation will include an overview of the campaign, impact results, lessons learned and ideas that are relevant to both your state and individual Extension programming. 
 
Keynote Presentation

From “Best Kept Secret” to Spotlight: the Discover Alabama Extension Campaign, Mike Clardy, Auburn University

Mike Clardy is the director of communications and marketing for the Alabama Cooperative Extension System, a position he has held since July 2022. In his role, Mike develops strategies for increasing visibility and boosting the reputation of Alabama Extension. The ACES team takes the scientific discoveries at Auburn and Alabama A&M to the people in each of Alabama’s 67 counties. Prior to his work in Extension, Mike spent 24 years in Auburn’s Office of Communications and Marketing, including seven years as Assistant Vice President, and eight years as a television news anchor and reporter.

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