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282 About the Editor and Contributors

coordinates the Rural Community Development Initiative that helps dis-
tressed rural communities identify opportunities to revitalize their economies.
She has published extensively on brownfield redevelopment issues and has
studied revitalization practices used in local economies. She currently is en-
gaged in an analysis of best practices in entrepreneurship promotion and de-
velopment used by state and local agencies as well as business succession plan-
ning programs to encourage youth to remain in rural communities and
continue businesses.

June Holley, M.A., was president and founder of the Appalachian Center
for Economic Networks (ACEnet), a regional entrepreneurship organiza-
tion in southeastern Ohio, for more than 20 years. At ACEnet, she pio-
neered the implementation of many innovative entrepreneurship strategies
including business networks, Kitchen Incubators, youth entrepreneurship,
regional entrepreneurship networks, policy networks, and cluster-focused
initiatives. In 1991, she was inducted by Governor Voinovich into the Ohio
Women’s Hall of Fame. An avid researcher on entrepreneurship a-nd inno-
vation, she has authored over 40 papers, articles, and books on various as-
pects of economic networking. June Holley now provides consulting, train-
ing, and mentoring to a wide range of organizations around the world that
are interested in creating healthier communities through a better under-
standing of networks, collaboration, innovation, and learning. She is co-
developer of Smart Network Toolkit, a user-friendly network mapping ap-
plication to help communities and regions identify and enhance their net-
works, and training and mentoring programs for Network Weavers.

Ronald J. Hustedde, Ph.D., is professor in the Department of Community
and Leadership Development at the University of Kentucky. He also directs
the Kentucky Entrepreneurial Coaches Institute, a unique $1.28 million
leadership program designed to stimulate an entrepreneurial culture in Ap-
palachian Kentucky. Hustedde is past president of the Community Devel-
opment Society and is coeditor of Community Development: A Journal of the
Community Development Society. He is widely published and his research in-
terests include venture capital and equity capital markets, community eco-
nomic development and rural entrepreneurship.

Joseph A. (Jay) Kayne, Ph.D. holds the Cintas Chair in Entrepreneurship at
the Richard T. Farmer School of Business at Miami University. Previously, he
served as vice president for community and policy at the Kauffman Center
for Entrepreneurial Leadership, during which time he coordinated the de-
velopment of KCCatalyst, a partnership to encourage and support the emer-
gence of new technology and life sciences companies in the greater Kansas
City area, initiated a Governors’ Academy on Entrepreneurship with the Na-