Welcome Janie Cochran!

Peter Jezek • August 3, 2020

The Board of Directors at Safe Haven Farms is excited to announce the hiring of our first Executive Director, Janie Cochran. Janie comes to us from PARACHUTE: Butler County (CASA) Court Appointed Special Advocates where she was their recruitment and development specialist. Her work experience includes volunteer recruitment, fundraising event coordination, grant writing, community outreach, marketing/social media and public speaking. She is a graduate of Morehead State University and has previously worked as a high school home economics teacher and a fabric and color specialist.

Janie serves as an active member of the Middletown Chamber of Commerce, UCBMA, Hamilton Joes Board of Directors, Power of the Purse Giving Circle and has been an advisor to Miami University’s Chi Omega chapter for 20 years. She resides in Hamilton with her 2 children Chloe, a recent Miami University graduate and Gabriel, who participates in Project Life at Butler Tech.

We were thrilled that Janie had familiarity with farming. She grew up on her family’s dairy farm in Kentucky and stated that she wants the Safe Haven “farmers” to have the continued opportunity to share meaningful experiences much like she remembers from her time on the farm.

Janie will be taking on operations and functions which the Board has carried for the past ten years, so we are all delighted to have her here.

WELCOME Janie!

Janie Cochran
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