The current chapter of the family's long westward journey.
Representing a major shift from the midwestern farming communities of North Dakota, the San Francisco Bay Area is where Scott Stadum currently resides. It is the hub for his digital accessibility columns and disabled traveler advocacy — work that translates a lifelong commitment to civic engagement into contemporary media and technology. His sister Kristin also settled in the region, creating a shared West Coast family node centered in and around Alameda, California.
The Bay Area arrival follows a sustained arc of geographic movement across generations — from the Norwegian settlements of Bottineau County, through the Great Plains towns of Rugby, Minot, and Cando, then south toward the Twin Cities and east to Washington, D.C., with international chapters in Tbilisi and Buenos Aires in between. Landing in the Bay Area represents both a culmination of that movement and the most permanent foothold the family has established on the West Coast.
Scott's accessibility and digital advocacy work grew directly out of his prior international public-service career, reoriented toward domestic media, archiving, and the infrastructure of the Stadum Family Archive itself — the project that now weaves together these scattered geographies into a single living record.