About us
Tami Eggers
Project Director
Tami Eggers is the 4-H Youth Development Specialist for Routt County. The Art of Ranching project emerged from her interest in having 4-H youth talk to the elders in their community.
Tami is a long-term resident of Routt County and believes that these intergenerational encounters help bind the community closer together.
Leisl Carr Childers
Project Historian
Leisl Carr Childers, Associate Professor of History at Colorado State University, provides community oral history training, archival research support to project participants and participating counties, and mentoring to project interns.
Her own work focuses on the rural American West, its public lands and agricultural communities.
Linda Meyer
Project Archivist
Linda Meyer is the archivist for the Agriculture and Natural Resource Collections at CSU’s Morgan Library.
Linda specializes in collecting oral histories from agriculturalists across the state. In 2024, she launched an Extension internship called Archiving Our Stories focused on collecting oral histories of ranchers in San Miguel County.
Jacie Rex
Project Coordinator
Jacie Rex is the 4-H Youth Development Specialist for Douglas County. She holds a Master of Arts degree from Colorado State University.
In 2021, Jacie served as the Art of Ranching project’s first Extension intern and used her background in agriculture to help get the project off the ground.
Dale Mize
Project Consultant
Dale Mize is a current History Ph.D. student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). As a former intern, and current project consultant, Dale works with the project’s current interns, edits historic narratives produced in the project, and provides support to the team as needed.
Dale interned with the project in 2022 and is currently researching the history and health of beef cattle production.
Rachel Stenz
Project Exhibit Designer
Rachel Stenz is a second year graduate student at Colorado State University pursuing a Masters of Arts degree in history.
Rachel enjoys combining her experience as a historian with her love of design to communicate diverse narratives of the past. She has used these skills to create and construct the Art of Ranching website as a project intern in 2024.
Sean Nelson
Project Researcher
Sean Nelson is first-year graduate student at Colorado State University pursuing a Master of Arts degree in history.
Sean was an Art of Ranching intern in 2023 and 2024 helping expand the project into Douglas County. He specializes in the history of masonry in Colorado, and has previously assisted faculty researching the demographic makeup of the Union’s Mississippi Fleet during the Civil War.
Summer 2025
Archiving Our Stories: The Art of Ranching and Community Partners in Routt County
This internship partners AOR with CSU Libraries to collect local historical materials for Routt County historical societies and museums, including the Tread of Pioneers Museum, Hayden Heritage Center and Museum, and the Yampa-Egeria Museum.
Summer 2025
History Education for 4-H Youth through the Art of Ranching Project
This internship is focused on creating an Art of Ranching curriculum and set of resources for 4-H youth for 4-H youth development specialists across the state who have 4-H youth interested in participating in the project.