Jenifer Reynolds - Emcee/Moderator
Rodger Kerr - Keynote Speaker
Jenifer Reynolds
Jenifer Reynolds is a native Oklahoman and a 25-year veteran of the broadcast industry. As a student at KOSU-FM, Jenifer earned the duPont-Columbia Award – the broadcast equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. She spent the next six years covering the Oklahoma Capitol, first for WKY Radio and then for KWTV, before being promoted to the TV station’s main anchor position in 1990.
In 2001, Jenifer left the hectic world of TV news to spend more time with her family and became host of the statewide TV program Discover Oklahoma.
The show allows Jenifer and her three children – Jill, Nelia and Gus - along with her husband, video photographer Chris Cook, to travel together seeking out interesting places around the state for other Oklahoma families to enjoy.
Jenifer and her husband Chris produce the TV show “Inside Reining” which airs as part of the weekly series “Wide World of Horses” on RFD-TV.
Jenifer has earned a variety of local, regional and national awards during her career, including the Lifetime Achievement Award from American Women in Radio and Television and High Noon Woman of the Year.
She and her family have horses, cows, goats, chickens, an occasional hog, plus a throng of dogs and cats all happily residing at their “Sandbur Ranch” in Jones, so named because sandburs and ragweed were the only thing growing on the place when they moved in and “Ragweed Ranch” sounded even worse.
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Rodger Kerr
Rodger Kerr is a native of southwest Oklahoma with roots deeply anchored in production agriculture and the agribusiness industry. He worked in production agriculture and in the agricultural service industries in his pre-collegiate years.
After earning a degree in agricultural economics at Oklahoma State University, he worked for the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture in a leadership position as Director of the Ag Linked Deposit Program as well as Legislative Liaison. In this position he worked to optimize opportunities for high debt to asset farming operations and alternative agriculture enterprises and businesses.
He then joined the Southwest Technology Center to provide leadership for the effective delivery of business and industry services to southwest Oklahoma. Rodger currently works as Director of Business and Industry Services at the Southwest Technology Center.
Rodger is a member of the FAPC Industry Advisory Committee and also owns and operates a farming business in Southwest Oklahoma.
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