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Earniece Young
Iowa


Earniece D. Young is the Resource Team Leader for the Oakland Iowa Resource Team. Earniece was born and raised in the rural eastern Arkansas town of LaGrange. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Regulatory Science-Agriculture from the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB) in 2006. During her undergraduate studies, she worked as a NRCS Student Intern in St. Francis, Jefferson, Lee and Pulaski Counties. She earned her Master of Public Administration from Arkansas State University in 2019. Earniece currently supervises an 11-member resource team consisting of Soil Conservationists, Soil Conservation Technicians, Resource Conservationist, Farm Bill Specialist and Contracted Staff that provide planning, contracting and implementation support to the District Conservationists within the resource team management area. In addition to supervising employees on the resource team, she also works cooperatively with the District Conservationist from the four (4) Field Offices to coordinate workload.

Earniece presently has 18 years of federal government experience with the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). Before accepting her assignment to the Oakland Resource Team, she served as the Supervisory District Conservationist of the Burlington Management Unit in Southeast Kansas. In this role, she managed and performed workload analysis of a three-county management unit and supervised District Conservationists, Soil Conservationists, Soil Conservationist Technicians, State and Federal Partner Employees and Contracted Farm Bill Specialist Employees. In earlier roles, she worked in Arkansas as a Soil Conservationist in Washington and Jefferson Counties (2006-2009) and District Conservationist (2009-2018) of the Monticello Field Service Center
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In addition to her professional experience with the agency, Earniece is an active member of other professional and social organizations. She currently serves as the Central Region Representative for the National Organization of Professional Black NRCS Employees (NOPBNRCSE), Former Treasurer of the Kansas Chapter of NOPBNRCSE, Current Recording Secretary for the Greater Kansas City UAPB/AM&N Alumni Chapter as well as a member of Women in NRCS (WiN) and Blacks in Government (B.I.G). In her spare time, she enjoys reading, traveling, learning about tiny houses, spoiling her handsome nephews, (Elijah and Takai), and pampering her Pomeranian-Chihuahua Mix, Waffa.