Extension Matters

Volume 12 Number 2

Making Connections

A teenager speaks at a podium as two adults and another teen look on.

Mississippi 4-H President Morgan White of Oktibbeha County, left, speaks to the Mississippi House of Representatives. Behind her are Mississippi Speaker of the House Jason White, representative for Attala, Carroll, Holmes, and Leake Counties; Mississippi House Agriculture Committee Chair Bill Pigott, representative for Lamar, Marion, and Walthall Counties, and Mississippi 4-H President-elect Joshua Brown of Lee County.

Mississippi 4-H Ambassadors meet state leaders at 2026 4-H Legislative Day

Story by Leah Bowers | Photos by Kevin Hudson

Each year, Mississippi 4-H Ambassadors travel to the State Capitol to meet their representatives, senators, and other state leaders of Mississippi. The 2026 visit gave these 4-H leaders the chance to meet the state’s top decision-makers: Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves, Lieutenant Governor Delbert Hosemann, and Speaker of the House Jason White.

Scroll on to see highlights of several Mississippi 4-H’ers who participated.

Teens in green jackets sit on a balcony, while adults sit in the main audience.
Mississippi 4-H Ambassadors visited the House of Representatives to support Mississippi 4-H President Morgan White’s address to state leaders.
Six teens wearing green jackets talk with a seated person at a wooden desk.
Mississippi 4-H’ers including, from left Annalyn Cates of Lamar County, Karley Jo Harrison of Union County, Hannah Hood of Holmes County, Connor Stokes of Monroe County, Joshua Brown of Lee County, and Michaela Failla of Hancock County, met and talked with Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves, seated.
Two teens in green jackets talk to a man wearing a suit and gesturing.
4-H’er Isabella Hancock of DeSoto County, left, and Annalyn Cates of Lamar County talked with Mississippi Lieutenant Governor Delbert Hosemann at the 4-H Legislative Reception following their visit to the Capitol.
Four people hold a large presentation check for $38,000 to the MSU Foundation as several smiling teens stand around them.
Mississippi AT&T, represented by president Mike Walker, presents a check for laptops to Mississippi 4-H. Learn more about AT&T’s generous donation.
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