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2026 Bonnie Teater Lifetime Achievement Award Winner: Dr. Alison F. Davis

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The Southern Rural Development Center is proud to honor Dr. Alison F. Davis as the 2026 recipient of the Bonnie Teater Community Development Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr. Davis is the first recipient of both the Early Career and Lifetime Achievement Awards, receiving the Bonnie Teater Early Career Achievement Award in 2011. Dr. Davis has served as Executive Director of Blueprint Kentucky and as a professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics, Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food, and Environment at the University of Kentucky since 2010.

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