Our Team

Radically Rural Planning Team Lillian Chase, Hannah Grimes Center for Entrepreneurship Julianna Dodson, Hannah Grimes Center for Entrepreneurship Kristen Noonan, Savings Bank of Walpole Megan Miner, Hannah Grimes Center for Entrepreneurship Eileen Sarson, Communitarian Julie Schoelzel, Greater Monadnock Collaborative Radically Rural Advisory Group Leah Bayens, The Berry Center, Kentucky Andrew Button, Mashup Lab, Nova Scotia Nicole Civita, EcoGather, Vermont Sarah Green, Kansas Sampler Foundation, Kansas Kitty Jerome, Volunteer, New Hampshire Geoffrey Kershner, Academy Center for the Arts, Virginia Ben Rassmussen, National Center for Frontier Communities, New Mexico Megan Weis, Center for Rural and Primary Healthcare, South Carolina

Track Leaders Doria Brown, EcoTok Jason Cooper, Southwest Region Planning Commission Jessica Gelter, Arts Alive Chris Harris, Kansas Leadership Center Benee Hershon, Cheshire County Conservation District Todd Horner, Southwest Region Planning Commission Emily Lytle, Reynolds Journalism Institute J.B. Mack, Southwest Region Planning Commission Drew Polatchek, League of Conservation Voters Sara Powell, Hannah Grimes Center for Entrepreneurship Jack Rooney, The Keene Sentinel Rob Werner, League of Conservation Voters Tricia Zahn, Cheshire Medical Center

Our Team & Volunteers In Action

   

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Executive Director

Julianna Dodson is originally from South Carolina, but has lived temporarily in nearly half of the US states, and moved to New Hampshire in 2017. She resides in the small New Hampshire town of Westmoreland, population 1,696. The beginning of her career was spent teaching English overseas, after which she worked in finance and conducted her small business on the side for 10 years. Julianna joined the Hannah Grimes Center for Entrepreneurship in Keene, NH in 2021 as the director of Radically Rural. In 2022 she also added duties as Deputy Executive Director before becoming Executive Director in 2024, where she oversees human resources, finance, operations, and programming. Outside of work, she leads an economic development committee for a Brownfields remediation project, and volunteers with organizations such as Project Home and Out in the Open. For fun she enjoys dancing, reading to her kids, thrifting, surfing, and nerding out on all things humanities. Conveniently, her favorite color is red!

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