Meet the Missouri Life Ambassadors!
Missouri Life has a crew of enthusiastic volunteers who share story ideas with us, let us know about events, and deliver insider knowledge on different topics that only a local could provide. Meet Adair County’s ambassador.
Missouri Life’s ambassador program is all volunteer. In addition to sharing story ideas and events with us for our calendar, they also help us spread the word about their own community and the state they love. They help us with regional information that only a local could provide. They are our eyes and ears in our big state!
Danielle Bopp
Danielle Bopp graduated from Truman State University with a degree in creative writing, and she has shared her writing talents with Missouri Life as a contributor for more than five years. (This is a bit unusual. We only have a handful of ambassador writers.) A travel agency writer before taking her current job at State Farm, this mother of two daughters loves learning about Missouri’s hidden gems. In her free time, Danielle enjoys writing and taking photos.
If you’d like to feed Danielle ideas that she could relay to us, email her at [email protected].
We still have ambassador openings in a handful of Missouri counties. Click here to see which counties still need an ambassador and to access the application.

Monica Bailey - Atchison County

Gary Westcott - Buchanan County

John Deis - Caldwell County

Janis Gates - Camden County

Elise Crain - Christian County

Misty Langston - Cooper County

Ross Malone - Franklin County

Laura Schulteis-Jungbluth - Lawrence County

Aaron Baker - Macon County

Kelly Barnhart - Maries County

Holly Cronk - Nodaway County

Susan Sundermeyer - Osage County

Jenn Dorrell-Van Dyke - Pettis County

Sally McDowell - Platte County

Brad Hogan - Ray County

Kathy Medley - Scott County

Paul Adrignola - St. Louis City

Linda McBride - Stone County
We will be adding ambassadors every week throughout the year until they have all been added. Check back to see who your county ambassador is.
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