Jessie Topp Becker was very active as member in the Carrington FFA chapter. That led to her service as a state FFA officer in 2009-2010. “My participation in the organization hasn’t stopped. I’m married to the ag instructor and FFA advisor in Kindred. My involvement looks a little different, but I’m very fortunate to continue my work with FFA.” That includes coaching several FFA teams in career development events at the national level, even bringing home a third-place ranking in ag communications. Jessie graduated from North Dakota State University “and then I had the wonderful opportunity for the Red River Farm Network for a year or two before going to Kansas State University and got my masters in agricultural communications.” She is now a contractor for BluePrint Media and is the editor for several different beef organizations. “I look to FFA as a big family with the connections I made in FFA myself and the work that I do. They say it is not what you know, but who you know and I think that is so true in FFA.” Hear her story.