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SDSU Extension Educator
Family Consumer Sciences
North 1 Field Education Unit
500 First Avenue North
Flandreau, South Dakota 57028
Work Phone: 605-997-2469
FAX: 605-997-2460
Email: stegeman.donna@ces.sdstate.edu

As an Extension Educator for Family Consumer Sciences (FCS), I am one of three FCS educators serving a six-county area in east central South Dakota. My bachelor's degree is in dairy production / dairy manufacturing from SDSU in 1992 and I served as a district manager for the Dairy Herd Improvement Association (DHIA) from 1992 - 1996. During my time with the DHIA, I became very aware of the relationship struggles that plagued many of the farm families I worked with, including parent vs. child, parent in-law vs. child in-law, and sibling vs. sibling conflicts. My interest in these relationship issues was one factor that led me to attain additional coursework in family consumer sciences. I currently am pursuing a master's degree in Human Development, Child and Family Studies from SDSU. My mixed educational and career background has given me the interest and tools to develop programs related to farm family communication and farm family estate planning. In addition, I focus my programming efforts on personal and family financial education. My personal time is spent keeping up with my two young sons, age 3 and 8.

Extension Educator
SDSU Cooperative Extension Service
Gregory County
221 E. 8th Street
PO Box 437
Burke, SD 57523
Work Phone: 605-775-2581
FAX: 605-775-2596
Email: votaw.ann@ces.sdstate.edu

Ann Votaw has been an Extension Educator in Gregory County, SD for 3 years and prior to that 11.5 years in Bladen County, NC. Ann is responsible for family and consumer sciences programming within her 6-county field education unit. Ann is a Nebraska native and earned her B.S. degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She earned her M.Ed. degree from North Carolina State University. Extension runs in Ann's family; her father and sister are both Extension Educators in Nebraska.