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Doctoral Candidate
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
I am interested in using interdisciplinary approaches to understand the impact of policy and systems strategies to reduce diet-related disparities among children in the US. Prior to starting in the doctoral program at UNC, I worked at Healthy Eating Research, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, where much of my work was focused on nutrition in early childhood. I have a master's degree in Public Health from UNC Chapel Hill and am a registered dietitian. I am a fellow with UNC's Royster Society of Fellows and a Population Science Predoctoral Trainee at the Carolina Population Center. My current research focuses on food purchases among WIC particpants during the pandemic and estimating the effects of a pandemic-related increase in funding for fruits and vegetables in the WIC program.