Jenny Hughes has been Cotton Australia's Education Manager for four years and brought nine years of agricultural education experience, backed up by 10 years in the classroom, to her position. Jenny specialises in hands-on interactive engagement for students and teachers. She has a passion for assisting teachers incorporate agriculture into their classrooms with curriculum-linked resources and to gain a better understanding of the cotton industry through Teach the Teacher Tours. Jenny can also be found heading up educational displays at both the Sydney Royal and EKKA agricultural shows and for the decades she has lived an urban life, she has always had soil under her fingernails from a backyard garden.