marusela anders bio

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Vice Chair Marusela Anders

Marusela Anders was born in Querétaro, Mexico and grew up in Mexico City since she was five years old. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in communications from the Intercontinental University in Mexico City. In 1990, she married a U.S. Navy sailor and moved to Norfolk, VA. A year later the adventure began, and they traveled all over the world. After living in Iwakuni, Japan (4 years); Sicily, Italy (3 years); and returning to the U.S. intermittently, they did their final tour in Bremerton, WA, where they stayed for 4 years. After her husband's retirement, they moved in January 2005 to Lancaster, Ohio (where he is originally from) to raise their two boys.

Once settled in central Ohio, Marusela quickly gained a position at the Ohio State University Department of Communications and Technology in the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences. Among many other responsibilities in the department, she is busy working on translating educational materials for Extension. She is part of the Ohio Latino Work Force, a group of Extension faculty, staff, and administrators with common interest in the knowledge, support, and education of the Latino labor force in Ohio. This group has sponsored two tours to Mexico to learn about the background of Mexican members of Ohio's communities. They hope to use their experience to help them develop programs in the future. With the growing Hispanic population in Ohio, Marusela hopes to get more involved with helping develop programs for this group in the community as well as for Extension faculty, staff, and the agricultural industry that work or relate with Hispanics.

Her background as well as her passion to support and promote diversity encouraged her to join the Diversity SIG and moreover to become an officer. She hopes her knowledge and position in Extension can be of benefit and contribute to ACE and the Diversity SIG.