Wrong! A pretty, petite woman stood before her UI audience and mused, “Can you imagine being a home economist at the Federal Reserve? It’s kind of daunting. I don’t think they know who I really am.”

Jeanne Hogarth informed and delighted UI and community audiences with her wit, intelligence, and practical advice on personal finances as the 2006 Margaret Ritchie Distinguished Speaker September 21 to 23, 2006.

Program manager for consumer education and research at the Federal Reserve Board, Hogarth has a Ph.D in education and family and consumer economics, earning her the job as provider of the Federal Reserve Board’s consumer information on financial services.

The UI School of Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) collaborated with the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology and the UI College of Business and Economics to broaden the campus outreach of the Margaret Ritchie Distinguished Speaker events this year.

To FCS alumni, she also stressed the increasing importance of financial help from UI Extension FCS educators around Idaho and the nation.

She credits UI’s FCS  faculty and extension educators for doing a very good job of “taking the content and the audience and the learning styles, and creating meaningful financial educational experiences.”