Looking to make new connections in the food system community to exchange ideas and discuss new projects and job opportunities.
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Throughout my 14 year career at the NIH, my administrative and project management roles helped to "facilitate science" by supporting NIH leadership. I am proud of my work so far and now that my graduate studies at Johns Hopkins BSPH are complete, I'm excited for the opportunity to be on the other side, as a researcher.
Summer Updates
I attended two conferences this summer in Baltimore where I got to meet up with friends and other researchers to discuss food waste research perspectives at ReFED.
In July I was a session notetaker at the National Academies of Sciences Transportation Research Board, CATE- Conference on Advancing Transportation Equity. There I got to speak with transit professionals and bring up my views on how food access is a transportation issue. I gained valuable insight on how transit planning works and ideas on how food access could be incorporated.
I am also happily making progress as researcher with the food waste research network- RECIPES. I feel very lucky to be around so many gifted researchers in the field.
Connector - I genuinely enjoy creating and nurturing my connections with others and bringing ideas and people together.
Curiosity- I have the propensity to stay curious and strive to process what I learn into wisdom for myself and my community. It's drawn me to explore physical and educational trainings and pursuits that bring me a lot of joy- including some listed here:
I completed my graduate studies for my Master of Health Science in Environmental Health and Engineering at Hopkins as a part-time student while working full-time. As a long time volunteer in soup kitchens and anti-hunger fundraising, I began to see those as band-aids to a bigger problem. I wanted to move away from that world and study solutions to food access and food waste.
I focused on understanding the connections between environmental health and the food system. During my time there I focused my research on long-practiced environmental justice approaches and how using those tools and practices could promote food system resilience.
Achieving food justice would require that all people have access to affordable housing, food, health care, fair wages, reliable transportation and live in a healthy environment.
In my work as a research scientist and as a citizen, I try to stay involved in conversations around local policies and programming that acknowledge inequity in social determinants of health and seek to find a community-designed solution.