Benjamin Mueller Email & Phone Number

Urbana, IL, US

Urbana-Champaign Area Illinois

My position provides direct assistance to primarily Spanish-speaking immigrants many of whom are undocumented or in an asylum proceeding. My work is to help them resolve their difficulties and improve their status by helping them navigate available resources in multiple areas including legal assistance, better access to housing and employment opportunities.

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

Beginning in 2016 established ISCU as a Not For Profit as President of the Board, part-time executive director and volunteer coordinator moving to a full-time executive director position in 2021. Under Mueller’s leadership, the organization became a strong immigrant relief organization with a strong faith-based volunteer staff and a full advocacy and.

Kenya

Attended a regional Sub-Saharan conference hosted by ICIPE (International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology. Mueller developed a concept note to partner the AgReach team with a group of premier scientists and transfer technology specialists from ICIPE to implement and evaluate a scaling-up strategy whose researchers have made significant.

Colombia

Consultant for UIUC AgReach to provide an assessment of ongoing and potential activities related to USAID assistance for Colombia government’s Office of Post Conflict which focuses on extension support for smallholder cocoa and coffee producers in five post-conflict states or departments, and is supported by the Colombian Federation of Coffee Producers.

Georgia

Consultant for Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development to provide technical expertise and contribute to the development of the Agriculture Section under the full Low Emissions Development Strategy (LEDS) document for the Government of Georgia supported by USAID/Caucasus Cooperative Agreement.

Tbilisi, Georgia

Managed USAID-funded Associate Award to the Modernizing Extension and Advisory Services (MEAS). SEAS is a cooperative agreement with subawards with Texas A&M University and Winrock International. SEAS is administered by the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Chief of Party’s main.

Tbilisi, Georgia

Managed USAID-funded Associate Award to the Modernizing Extension and Advisory Services (MEAS). SEAS is a cooperative agreement with subawards with Texas A&M University and Winrock International. SEAS is administered by the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Project Manager’s main.

Tajikistan

Managed USAID-funded Associate Award to the Modernizing Extension and Advisory Services (MEAS) project, the Farmer Advisory Services Tajikistan Program (FAST). FAST is a cooperative agreement with a sub-award with Public Organization Ruyo, a Tajikistan NGO. FAST is administered by the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at the University of.

Champaign, Illinois

Avicenna Community Health Center (ACHC), 501 (C) 3 is a Not for Profit (NFP) free clinic for the uninsured in Champaign, IL. ACHC is supported by a large volunteer pool of students, faculty, and providers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and area clinics and hospitals offering clinical and preventative health services using its own.

Champaign, Illinois

Coordinated volunteer management, developed community, state and regional partnerships, and designed and implemented multiple outreach prevention interventions, health fairs, and educational activities to support Avicenna Community Health Center, a 501 (C) 3 free clinic for the uninsured in Champaign, IL.

Colombia

Performed an evaluation of the Extension Service of the National Federation of Colombian Coffee Growers (FNC), a public/private partnership with over 500,000 members in 17 departments of Colombia. This project is administered by MEAS at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Economics. Created and.

Ocosingo, Chiapas, Mexico

This project was an US-AID supported 4-year effort entitled "Capacity Building in Southern Mexico" involving Western Illinois University (WIU), Universidad Tecnológica de la Selva (UTS) and Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro (UAQ). Monitored and evaluated the Rural Development Center established at UTS in the Chiapas Department of Mexico. Subsequently.

Urbana, Illinois, United States

Nuevos Horizontes (New Horizons) Spanish Language Media Initiative, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Created and produced an award winning, weekly radio outreach program broadcast in Spanish over a wide network of stations in the U.S. and selected Latin American countries focusing on immigrant policy, health and cultural themes over a 17 year.