![]() ![]() Her passion is having health and safety research make sense to people in their everyday lives, and helping people adopt practical, sustainable solutions for better health and safe workplaces. Her career has spanned working as an environmental chemist conducting safety and health research on pesticides, to working for a state water quality agency, and finally finding her home as an educator with Cooperative Extension. Although she didn’t grow up on a farm, Julia has tremendous respect for farmers, farmworkers, and their families who do the tough and sometimes thankless job of bringing food to our tables.Ĭollege and career brought Julia to North Carolina. One of her vivid childhood memories is of visiting her Sunday school teacher’s family farm and being amazed at the farm chores–especially feeding the hogs. She went to school with classmates who helped their families grow small plots of tobacco and cabbage and raise chickens. Julia grew up in a small town in East Tennessee. She is actively involved in the North Carolina Agromedicine Institute, a partnership of East Carolina University, NC State University and NC A&T State University, whose mission is to promote the health and safety of farmers, foresters, fishers, workers, and their families and communities through research, education, and outreach. Julia Storm serves as Agromedicine Information Specialist at North Carolina State University and North Carolina Cooperative Extension.
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