Learn about program goals, eligibility, other requirements, and resources available for USDA’s From Learning to Leading: Cultivating the Next Generation of Diverse Food and Agriculture Professionals Program (NextGen).
The goal of the NextGen program is to enable institutions eligible under Section 1006 of the American Rescue Plan, as amended by Section. 22007 of the Inflation Reduction Act (Pub.L 117-169) to engage, recruit, retain, train, and support students in order to help build and sustain the next generation of the food, agriculture, natural resources, and human sciences workforce including the future USDA and federal government workforce.
For more information about this program, please see the From Learning to Leading: Cultivating the Next Generation of Diverse Food and Agriculture Professionals (NextGen) Funding Opportunity
Program Contacts
- Carlos Ortiz, National Program Leader
- Ahlishia Shipley, National Program Leader
- Erin Riley, National Program Leader
- Irma Lawrence, National Program Leader
- Manoharan Mathusamy, National Program Leader
If you need a reasonable accommodation to participate in this meeting, please contact David Wagner, Program Specialist, at david.wagner2@usda.gov no later than September 5th, 2022. Language access services, such as interpretation or translation of vital information, will be provided free of charge to limited English proficient individuals upon request.