Professional Experience and Training

• Assistant Extension Professor, University of Connecticut, Department of NutritionalSciences
• EFNEP Director for the state of Connecticut and Assistant Professor in Nutritional Sciences.
• WIC Director, Onslow County WIC Program, 2014-2016
• Administrative Nutrition Manager, The Brooklyn Hospital WIC Program, 2010-2014
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Vanderbilt University, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, 2008-2010
• Graduate Assistant, University of Connecticut (Nutritional Sciences and Kinesiology), 2005-2008
• Assistant to Associate Editor, Journal of Nutrition, 2007-2008
• Clinical Dietitian, ManorCare Pike Creek, Wilmington, DE, 2003-2005
• Clinical Dietitian, St. Francis Hospital, Wilmington, DE, 2003
• Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Virginia Tech, 200-2002

Research Interests

• Food security
• Public health nutrition policy
• Focus on low income programs and underserved populations
• Participant-centered nutrition counseling
• Online nutrition education and technology in public health programs