Kevin Tschirhart is the Agriculture and Socioeconomic Coordinator for the AgCenter. Prior to that, he worked in a market research and opinion poll institute (IFOP) in Paris. More recently, he worked at Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) at the Earth Institute on a household survey to assess the socio-economic and environmental conditions of two watersheds in the border area between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. He has a M.S. in Management from the Euromed Marseille business school in France and a M.A. in Applied Social Research from the City University of New York.