Graduate Student
San Diego State University
Charityn is a first-generation college graduate born to immigrant parents in Chula Vista, California. She attended San Diego State University and recently earned her master's degree in nutritional science. She completed her degree while serving as a teaching assistant for medical nutrition therapy classes and working full-time as a diet clerk at Scripps Health hospitals. She will continue her pursuit to become a Registered Dietitian through her upcoming dietetic internship with the University of California, San Diego Dietetic Internship.
Before this project, Charityn was a volunteer in "El Valor de la Salud" and "Kid's Choice Restaurant Project," community research projects with the San Diego State University Research Foundation, which ignited her interest in becoming a Registered Dietitian to work with vulnerable populations, especially individuals from low income and minority communities. Although the current project (PPIs, red meat, & gut integrity) is in a different field than her initial goals, Charityn's clinical nutrition interests are gut integrity and the surrounding mechanisms of gastrointestinal health & nutrition. Charityn is honored to have been selected as "Emerging Leaders in Nutrition Science" for the Experimental Animal Nutrition topical area at this year's Nutrition Live Online 2022. She hopes to continue to give back to the science community through continued involvement in research and other academic projects.