Kindra Callahan
Kindra grew up in Cambridge, Illinois, on a small family farm raising livestock, helping with grain production, detasseling, baling hay and showing horses. Her true passion is evaluating live animals. She has been judging livestock and horses since her early FFA days and carried this through college.
She attended Black Hawk College East Campus, competed on the 2005 National Champion Horse Judging Team, was the student trustee on the Board of Trustees, and was the Agri-Business Club vice president. In 2006, she earned her Associate of Science in agriculture and was named the Outstanding Agriculture Student. She then transferred to Kansas State University, where she competed with the 2007 AQHA World Champion Team and coached the 2008 AQHA Reserve World Champion Horse Judging Team.
After graduation, Kindra was employed by Land O’Lakes Purina as a lifestyle species specialist in the upper Midwest. She focused on serving the nutritional needs of cow/calf operations, horse farms, large sporting dog kennels, zoos and club livestock producers.
Kindra is employed in the Kewanee Community School District as an Agriculture education teacher and FFA advisor. She teaches a variety of preps, including Introduction to Agriculture, Biological Science Applications in Agriculture, Agriculture Business Foundations, Agriculture Power & Technology, Animal Science, Horticulture (dual credit through the Black Hawk College East Campus) and Veterinary Technology (dual credit). She has been granted three Curriculum for Agriculture Science Educators (CASE) certifications in the areas of agriculture fiber and natural resources, agriculture business management, and agriculture power and technology.
In 2020, Kindra became a CASE lead teacher—traveling in the summer to provide professional development to other agriculture teachers nationwide. In 2021, Kindra was named a Top 5 Agriculture Educator in Illinois as the District 1 Golden Owl. In the summer of 2022, she was named the Illinois State Winner of the Teacher Turn the Key Award, and the Kewanee FFA Chapter was recognized as a National Finalist for the National Chapter Award.
Since returning to the Kewanee area, Kindra has served as a board member for the Black Hawk College East Ag Alumni and represented the Ag Alumni on the Black Hawk College East Foundation board. She plays an active role in helping her husband, Aaron Callahan, develop the freshman horse judging team at the Black Hawk College East Campus.
She enjoys reading, learning new things (like how to breakaway rope), mentoring young people, serving on the Instructional Leadership Team at KHS, volunteering at the East Campus, judging horse shows, representing Section 3 on the Illinois Ag Education Legislative Committee, visiting with her nieces and nephews, traveling with her husband, playing with their beautiful dogs or, her favorite, attending a TEAM ROPING!
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