Contact Meagan
hoffman.1689@osu.edu
OVERVIEW OF RESPONSIBILITIES
As assistant director and state 4-H leader, Meagan provides organizational, cross-disciplinary, and creative leadership for Ohio 4-H youth development programming. Meagan provides guidance to all Ohio 4-H professionals, whose programs reach more than 196,000 youth across the state and coordinate with more than 12,400 adult volunteers each year.
Meagan sets the strategic direction of Ohio 4-H and works to develop collaboration between Ohio 4-H faculty, staff, and stakeholders. She maintains collaborative, productive relationships with internal and external partners of Ohio 4-H, including but not limited to other Extension program areas, CFAES administration and central support units, academic units in CFAES and across the university, county commissioners, fair organizations/boards, and other local partners who collaborate with 4-H across Extension’s statewide campus.
Meagan ensures that Ohio 4-H programs are based on evidence-informed practices of the field of youth development. She also ensures Ohio 4-H is an active participant in national 4-H efforts to support and advance the 4-H movement.
This role also includes providing financial and operational oversight of the state 4-H office and Ohio 4-H Foundation, which involves assisting with recruitment, placement and professional development of 4-H professionals, and representing Extension in addressing youth development issues and policies.
ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Meagan was recognized with the North Central Regional Visionary Leadership Award at the 2025 Epsilon Sigma Phi Conference; and she has served as the inaugural Kirkeide Fellow with North Dakota State University Extension since January 2025, with a focus on career readiness and workforce development for youth across the state of North Dakota.
Meagan also served as an associate professor and Extension 4-H youth development specialist with North Dakota State University Extension. Prior to her role with NDSU Extension, Meagan was a county 4-H youth agent in Mississippi.
EDUCATION
PhD, agricultural education focusing on agricultural leadership, Oklahoma State University
Master of Science, agricultural and Extension education, Mississippi State University
Bachelor of Science, human sciences (human development and family studies), Mississippi State University
Curriculum vitae in process.