{"id":83,"date":"2020-06-19T20:58:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T00:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/georgia4hscience\/?page_id=83"},"modified":"2026-01-05T11:08:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T16:08:28","slug":"about-the-author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/georgia4hscience\/about-the-author\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Author"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kasey Bozeman (she\/her) brews a delicious cup of coffee or tea each morning as she sets off to work as the Extension 4-H Specialist for Science Programs. Kasey collaborates with other Georgia 4-H state staff in developing, facilitating, and evaluating 4-H programs, trains and supports county-based faculty in science programming, and creating curricula and training materials to address science and environmental education content areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From 2011-2019, Kasey served as the Liberty County Extension Coordinator and 4-H Youth Development Agent, where she had a hydroponics chamber and colony of cave cockroaches in her office. Additionally, Kasey has worked as a Child &amp; Youth Specialist for Air Force Reserve Command and a seasonal Environmental Education Instructor at Wahsega 4-H Center.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kasey earned a B.S. in environmental science from Piedmont College and an M.S. in environmental education from Nova Southeastern University.  She is currently pursuing an Ed.D. in curriculum studies from Georgia Southern University. Her favorite learning environments are outdoors, engaging, and fun. She has a strong passion for getting educators excited about science education. Some of her favorite topics to teach about are soils, trees, and the Georgia coast. She describes herself as quirky, curator of odd knick-kacks, and a pickled vegetable enthusiast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UGA Extension\/4-H professionals have the opportunity to serve as a guest author on the \u201cGeorgia 4-H Science Programs\u201d blog. If you are interested in contributing a post, please complete this <a href=\"https:\/\/uga.questionpro.com\/t\/AcCiXZ7yxk\">form<\/a> and Kasey will contact you shortly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"788\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/georgia4hscience\/files\/2020\/06\/Untitled-design-1.png\" alt=\"A collage of photos.\" class=\"wp-image-87\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/georgia4hscience\/files\/2020\/06\/Untitled-design-1.png 940w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/georgia4hscience\/files\/2020\/06\/Untitled-design-1-300x251.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/georgia4hscience\/files\/2020\/06\/Untitled-design-1-768x644.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><br>Kasey Bozeman, Extension 4-H Specialist <br>Science and Environmental Education Programs<br>310 Hoke Smith Annex &#8211; UGA<br>Athens, GA 30602<br>706.542.4444<br>kaseyb@uga.edu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kasey Bozeman (she\/her) brews a delicious cup of coffee or tea each morning as she sets off to work as the Extension 4-H Specialist for Science Programs. Kasey collaborates with other Georgia 4-H state staff in developing, facilitating, and evaluating 4-H programs, trains and supports county-based faculty in science programming, and creating curricula and training [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-83","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/georgia4hscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/georgia4hscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/georgia4hscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/georgia4hscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/georgia4hscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/georgia4hscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/georgia4hscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83\/revisions\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/georgia4hscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}