Dr. Billy Zanolini has accepted the position of
Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist – Youth Livestock and Agriculture
with the Texas 4-H and Youth Development Program. He will begin on September
15, 2012 and will be housed at the Texas 4-H Headquarters Building. Dr.
Zanolini brings a great deal of passion, energy, and expertise to youth
livestock and agriculture education programs.
Dr. Zanolini holds a BS and MS from
Texas Tech University and a PhD from Texas A&M University. He has been a
County Extension Agent in both Wilbarger and Madison Counties. He has planned,
implemented, and evaluated very strong youth outcome programs and his doctoral
research focused on the 4-H Livestock Ambassadors program he initiated a few
years ago. In this study, he developed an educational model of the 4-H youth
experience that has since been used as a teaching model for the Texas 4-H &
Youth Development Program.
Dr. Zanolini has been a member of the
Board of Directors of the Texas Junior
Livestock Association for the past four years.
He also serves as the Sheep Superintendent at the TJLA Belt Buckle
Bonanza. He is familiar with the TJLA’s commitment to education for junior
livestock exhibitors and has talked about the need for cooperative partnerships
between the TJLA and the Texas Extension Service.
In this role, he will be in charge of
the TJLA’s educational programs throughout the state.
“We are very pleased to support this
new position in the Texas AgriLife Extension Service, and we look forward to
working with Dr. Zanolini in this post,” stated Cherie Carrabba, Executive
Director of the TJLA. “We have been
committed to the education of junior exhibitors for a number of years, and we
feel that Dr. Zanolini will add a new dimension to this role.”
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