Whitmer is the Family, Consumer and Health Sciences Area Agent and County Extension Director for Cochise County. She develops and conducts programs addressing priority needs with research-based, objective, informal education programs to Arizona families. The educational programs assist families and communities in the areas of strengthening of families, community development, child development/ parenting, life skills, financial literacy, oral health, and health promotion/disease prevention/food safety healthy lifestyles) She continues to work with the community leadership, partners, and citizens to develosustainable changes in the community with policy, systems and environmental changes through collective impact.