Corbin resident named as EKU Educational Extension Agent for tri-county area

Corbin resident Kelli Cole Moore is now serving as Eastern Kentucky University’s Educational Extension Agent for Laurel, Knox and Whitley counties.

Earlier this fall, EKU announced the placement of seven educational extension agents – modeled after the familiar agricultural extension agents – throughout the University’s 22-county primary service area. Typically, each agent covers three to five counties, working with community partners to promote the well-being of children, youth, families and communities through the coordination and delivery of educational services and programs tailored to the unique needs of each school district and through the coordination and delivery of community services and programs, likely at school sites.

Depending on school and community needs, the agent, might among other activities:

• Facilitate collaboration to solve community problems.
• Obtain funds for after-school programs.
• Conduct need-based parenting programs.
• Promote good health through nutrition education programs and food safety programs.
• Promote entrepreneurship.
• Strengthen child and adult literacy programs.
• Bridge educational gap through remediation at all levels of K-12.
• Develop strategies to improve high school graduation rates.
• Increase dual credit offerings.
• have EKU tap into community resources.
• Increase the roles of P-16 councils.
• Facilitate civic engagement among students through partnerships.

A summa cum laude graduate of EKU’s public relations program, Moore has 16 years experience in the public relations and marketing field.

After graduation, Moore rose through the ranks of the prestigious public relations and research firm The Preston Group. She won the Silver Anvil Award of Excellence for her grassroots coalition building and community relations work for one of the firm’s larger clients, the Kentucky County Attorneys Association. For the past decade, she has worked as a public relations and marketing consultant with various associations, industries and corporations in Kentucky.

She has been an active volunteer in schools and churches in the area. She and her husband, Allen, have three children, ages 10, 8 and 3.