National Women In Agriculture Association Makes Contribution To National Smithsonian

The National Women in Agriculture Association, based in Oklahoma City, is helping the Smithsonian create a publication on biotechnology.

The organizations founder, Dr. Tammy Gray-Steele, said she wanted to write a community research guide to help children understand how agriculture affects their everyday lives.

"My work will forever be in history in the Smithsonian for viewers," Gray-Steele said. "To make sure... they understood the future in agriculture."

Dr. Gray-Steele said her Oklahoma roots run deep.

"I was raised on a farm in near the Sasakwa-Wewoka area," Dr. Gray-Steele said. "That is where I was raised, my family actually still owns beef cattle and is involved in the industry here."

Dr. Gray-Steele said she moved to New York for school, but returned and, after meeting her future-husband, decided to stay.

"I received my [law] degree from New York University law school, and then I met my husband on a trip back home and he convinced me to move back," Dr. Gray-Steele said.

Dr. Gray-Steele also said she is continuing her momentum forward, working to become the first black, Congressionally-chartered organization in the United States.

To read the biotechnology publication, click here. For more information on the National Women in Agriculture Association, click here.