Making My Own Legacy: Seneca Flint-Morgan
Getting installed as district president at the 2026 New York FFA Convention.
I am Seneca Flint-Morgan from Tully FFA in New York. This year, I had the privilege of serving on the 2025-26 FFA in the USA reporter team. While I’ve spent this year writing about others, it’s time for me to share my own FFA story: one of friendship and growth.
Early Involvement
Growing up, I was not involved in agriculture, and I spent a majority of my time on stage preforming. From age 5, I was in musicals, choirs and bands, soaking every bit of spotlight I could. As I got older, I took “Consumer Ag 8,” which was my middle school’s required agriculture class. I learned there was a competition in FFA where I could write my own speech and perform it to judges, and my drama club director said it would be an awesome idea to try and branch out to “widen my skill set.”
Now, I’d like to say that my passion didn’t immediately change from performing to agriculture, but that simply is not the case. I was completely hooked on FFA and agricultural education from that point on. My dad is an immigrant from Venezuela, and my mom grew up in Buffalo; neither of them had any clue what FFA was. Charting my own agriculture journey has been the hardest, yet most rewarding journeys of my life.
Two of the friends I’ve made as a result of making my own FFA journey. Bella Bulson (right), Christiana Borst (middle) and me (left).
Charting My Own Course
I was already an outgoing, confident girl, so joining FFA was easy; it was finding my spot that was difficult. Everyone around me either grew up on a farm or had parents in the agriculture industry, so my situation was unique to almost everyone around me. I felt lost at most FFA events because I was in a space where all of my peers seemed to have such a further understanding than me.
While some might have taken this as a reason to give up, my passion for the agriculture industry and public speaking overrode those feelings of doubt. I quickly began to throw myself in any and every situation possible to catch up to everyone else whose parents left them a legacy in agriculture.
Making My FFA Journey MY FFA Journey
After several competitions, teams and events, I finally found my passion in FFA: making new friends by telling the stories of others. I accepted that I could not change myself to fit the typical mold that is an FFA member, but I could cater my own FFA journey to fit who I was and what I enjoyed.
I learned that my support to others not only benefited them, but also benefited me, bringing me new friends and experiences I otherwise would not have had. I applied for this program, where I’ve spent this year highlighting others’ sucess, while also getting to know different faces in the agriculture industry and FFA organization.
I ran for chapter office, and am now going to serve as my chapter’s vice president for 2026-27. Additionally, I joined my chapter’s parliamentary procedure team, and will be representing my state, New York, at the National FFA Convention & Expo this fall. Had I not begun to take charge of my own FFA journey to fit who I am, I would still be the lost eighth grader who thought FFA was not right for her because her parents were not part of the agriculture industry.
Today, I’m a sophomore in high school, and have just been elected as the New York FFA Association’s District 7 president. I am so excited for this privilege to represent my district and its members this year. I am creating my own legacy, so that I can serve as a role model for those whose families also did not have a name in the agriculture industry or agricultural education world.
While I have time left in FFA, I have so much gratitude for the organization, the opportunities it has given me and the impacts it has had on my life.
