About me
Dr. Lynn Gibbard, a US Army and Army Reserve Veteran, is faculty in the Department of Communication at Appalachian State University specializing in strategic and intercultural communication. She is the Co-Director of the University's Frontline to Farm program whose mission is to support military Veterans transitioning to sustainable farming as a career. The program offers online and in-person training funded in part by NIFA/BFRPD (grant #2020-49400-32401). As a researcher and grant writer, she has specialized in projects focused on military culture and Veteran transition - first for Student Veterans and now for Farmer Veterans.
Lynn has been teaching communication in person and online for nearly twenty years and manages her own communication consulting business. Lynn grew up subsistence farming in New England and has worked with rural farmers as a researcher and program developer in the Northeast and Southeast US. She is passionate about helping Farmer Veterans develop and apply communication skills to support their success and works to do so through Frontline to Farm and as Vice-President of the Farmer Veteran Coalition's North Carolina chapter.