With support from USAID, CDC, NIH, USDA NIFA, and UN Women, among others, Kathleen Ragsdale uses multi methods to inform interventions and evaluations focused on socioeconomic development, food security, and risk reduction among populations in Belize, Botswana, Costa Rica, Ghana, Mozambique, Panama, U.S., Virgin Islands, and Zambia. She is the Gender Impacts Lead for the Feed the Future Soybean Innovation Lab, Gender and Youth Engagement Lead for the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Fish.

Dr. Ragsdale's work is supported in part by MAFES.