Forrest Stagner holds a dual-title PhD in Rural Sociology and International Agriculture & Development from The Pennsylvania State University. He is currently a postdoctoral scholar at Penn State Main Campus studying waste-to-energy systems and the on-farm production of biogas. He also serves as an adjunct professor of anthropology and sociology at Penn State Altoona. He has worked in and studied food systems in the United States in North Carolina, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Iowa as well as abroad in Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, and Zambia. He has authored multiple academic journal articles and technical reports on food, energy, and climate change and presented at many academic and professional conferences. His dissertation was a mixed-methods investigation into the use of livestock by smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa for climate change resilience.

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EDUCATION

2023 – PhD, The Pennsylvania State University

2012 – Master of International Studies, North Carolina State University

2010 – B.A. Political Science, North Carolina State University

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