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Brittany Michael
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Brittany Michael is a Virginia Cooperative Extension agent, Family and Consumer Sciences - Food, Nutrition & Health. She works in Warren and Page counties. She is a 2007 graduate of Bridgewater College, where she received her bachelor of science degree in nutrition and wellness. She has been an extension agent since 2007.
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