About Family and Consumer Sciences

Angela McCorkle, B.S.
Extension Assistant, Family Resource Management – Adult and Youth Programs

2251 TAMU
College Station, Texas 77843-2251
phone: (979) 845-1150
fax: (979) 845-6496
armccorkle@ag.tamu.edu

Angela McCorkle joined the Family Development and Resource Management Unit as an Extension Assistant in August 2007. She has her B.S. in vocational home economics from the University of Nebraska, and she is pursuing her masters at Texas A&M.

In her new position, she will provide support for Family Development and Resource Management adult and youth programs, with a major focus on resource management. Her responsibilities will include working with the Clothing Advisory Board, supporting the Clothing Project, and the delivery of the National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE) program in schools.

In addition, she will work with specialists to develop or modify, and manage agent and volunteer leader training on Family Resource Management-focused 4-H project guides, using on-line delivery whenever possible. She will assist with other resource management programs, such as Money Smart, and the development of the resource management website.

For the past eight years, she has been an Family and Consumer Sciences teacher in Bryan I.S.D. Before that, she worked with FDRM as an Extension Assistant, managing the Strengthening Our Capacity to Care program, which involved first time juvenile offenders in 4-H projects. She has also been a county FCS Extension agent in Kansas.