Murray State University. Associate Professor /Graduate

Coordinator Hutson School of Agriculture   

Dr. Kristie Guffey is a professor of Agriscience and the graduate coordinator at the Hutson School of Agriculture at Murray State University. A Kentucky native, she grew up on a beef cattle and tobacco farm and was active in the FFA.  She started her career as a high school agricultural education teacher and FFA advisor in Carlisle County before teaching at the WKU-Glasgow campus for 7 ½ years.  While at WKU, she completed her doctorate in organizational leadership.  She then directed the Kentucky FFA Leadership Training Facility for the Kentucky Department of Education before coming to Murray State. 

She recently was appointed by the governor of Kentucky to serve on the Commission for Women for the Commonwealth representing women in agriculture and was a member of the Kentucky Agricultural Leadership Program, Class 13.  She serves as the past-president for the Association of Leadership Educators and the current vice-president of Kentucky Women in Agruclture. Her research has focused on agricultural education, FFA, leadership training, conflict management, and recently collaborating with the Southeast Center for Agriculture Rural Health and Safety to educate and promote mental health and well-being and suicide prevention in farmers and farm families. Partnering with Ag Safe and the Kentucky Raising Hope Campaign, she has traveled throughout the commonwealth sharing her story of raising hope and bringing awareness to mental health and suicide prevention.  In her spare time, she loves traveling the globe with her family, baking anything sourdough with her two girls, and most recently camping with her family.