Welcome to Mayor's Top Teens.

I'm Liz Liano, and today we're going to be talking to Lacey Knight.

Welcome Lacey and congratulations for being a Mayor's Top Teen.

Thank you.

Thank you for having me.

Yeah, it's wonderful to have you here.

So, we'd like to hear a little bit about you and some of the activities and extracurriculars that have been keeping you busy.

So I'm a senior at Las Cruces High School.

Throughout my high school career I've been really involved in, mostly FFA events and different things around, my school for sure.

But FFA is definitely the most one.

I've grown up around agriculture my entire life.

So I've lived here in Las Cruces and I've done a lot of stuff through FFA, and that's just what I spend most of my time on.

So you said you grew up around agriculture.

What does that look like?

So my, my whole family has been involved in FFA and agriculture, kind of since they've grown up to.

My mom's actually an agriculture teacher, and so was my grandpa.

So, I've come from kind of a long line of that, but I've been exposed to agriculture and I've been riding horses since before I could walk.

So, I have a lot of animals, and, I've just been involved in 4H and FFA since I could remember.

So it's something that's kind of capsulated my whole life and it's something that I'm really happy I have because it's helped me so much.

Wonderful.

It sounds like you're very passionate about it.

Is this influencing what you want to do in the future?

What you want to study?

Oh, for sure.

I know I'm going to definitely study animal science and get my degree in that and then, possibly go on to maybe becoming a vet, going to vet school, or going to into agriculture education, like my mom.

So it's definitely influenced what I wanted to do, and it's given me so many career opportunities to explore what I want to do.

I was really undecided until I really got in deep into FFA, and then that's really helped me decide really what I want to do.

Wow, so it runs in the family and you're very passionate about it, that's wonderful.

Do you know where you want to, pursue your studies?

I'm going to get my bachelor's here at NMSU, and then, afterwards, maybe go on to a secondary college, either for vet school, some somewhere like, Washington State or Colorado State.

and if not, then, stay here at NMSU for my, master's in agriculture education.

Wonderful.

Well sounds like you have it all laid out.

And I'm sure wherever you go, you will find a horse?

No horsing around.

Oh, wonderful.

Well, congratulations again on being a Mayors Top Teen.

Thank you.