Carla Snyder

Carla Snyder is the Associate State Program Leader for the Energy, Business and Community Vitality unit with Penn State Extension. She focuses on education surrounding business development and marketing valued added agricultural products and international entrepreneurship-driven community and economic development. She currently serves as the chair of the Globalizing Extension Committee and leads the Nicaraguan Extensionist Project where she focuses on providing agricultural technology exchange to support sustainable livelihoods. She has worked to bolster the hard cider industry across 7 countries and has led cultural immersion experiences for both university students, agricultural professionals and Extension peers throughout the world to exchange knowledge and skill. She holds an MPS degree in Community and Economic Development with a focus on international development.