This is Agriculture: Training Coordinator

There are an abundance of different careers in agriculture, and Angela Pearen has tried several of them. Now the coordinator of the agriculture extension programs at Russ Edwards School of Agriculture and Environment, Assiniboine College, Angela has also worked helping producers diversify their farm income, and held positions in rural leadership, stakeholder engagement and strategic planning with Manitoba Agriculture. She says her role at Assiniboine College brings her back to the work she loves the most.

Describe your job or product in one sentence.

I coordinate training programs for people working in the ag industry and those that support the ag industry.

Where did you grow up? Was it an agriculture or urban environment?

I grew up in the Roseland district, southwest of Brandon on an acreage. We crop shared with our land neighbours and my parents still crop share with the next generations of that family – it’s been over 50 years.

What was your dream job when you were a kid?

The plan was for me to become a registered dietician and that changed when I saw all the options available in the then Faculty of Human Ecology at U of M. I completed a practicum with the home economics section of Manitoba Agriculture in 1994 and I knew that was where I wanted to land in my career, and luckily I was able to achieve that after getting some other experience first.