Food Systems, Nutrition, and Health
Food Security/Access
May 4, 2023
Teen Feed Meal Evaluation Tool
Created a meal evaluation tool (“Meal Checklist”) for Teen Feed volunteers to use before or after building their meals. Google Form questions both gather information on and help guide volunteers into making healthy, balanced food choices. Meal-level and high-level metrics are aggregated in an easy-to-understand Google spreadsheet (“Teen Feed Metrics”).
Teen Feed: Build Your Own Healthy Meal Challenge
Prepared a guide with a list of healthy or “choose often” options for each food category so clients can combine items they like and build their own version of a healthy, balanced meal.
Teen Feed: Population and Impact
Designed a handout for Teen Feed to utilize when soliciting donors and volunteers, which provides an overview of their adolescent client population and their unique nutrition needs and the impact the organization’s social and nutrition justice work provides to the community.
Teen Feed: Ensuring Physical and Emotional Safety at Mealtimes
Used the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) model to create a fact sheet and guide for Teen Feed volunteers to use when building their client meals. Focuses on supporting both the emotional and nutritional health of the organization’s youth clientele.
July 7, 2022
Fresh Food and Sustainability Intern and the UW Food Pantry
Managed food that is provided to the UW pantry from food service and redistribed in order to reduce waste. Worked with pantry customers towards alleviating the stress of food insecurity by providing a safe space for them to depend on for resources to maintain health.
Internship at the Community Alliance for Global Justice (CAGJ)
Gained experience in the nonprofit sector of food justice advocacy and policy work. Evaluated current policy initiatives that directly impact food sovereignty and/or security and added to the research that empowers and supports partnering organizations, who represent farmworker communities and independent unions.
Food Security Internship at the University of Washington Farm
Worked in collaboration with the UW Farm and UW Food Pantry, to explore food from not only a field experience in organic farming, but also management and evaluating data to better understand food security and strengths and weaknesses of the food system. This allowed application of conceptual, theoretical, and technical food systems concepts learned in…
March 3, 2022
Developing Nutrition Education Materials for the Hunger Intervention Program (HIP)
January 5, 2022
Food Bank Delivery Programs: Best Practices Across the U.S.
The United Way of King County (UWKC) has been running a county-wide food bank delivery program since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic (March 2020). To provide the best and most efficient service UWKC partnered with the University of Washington Nutritional Sciences Program 2nd year graduate students for assistance with research on local and national…
Strategies for the Provision of Culturally Relevant Foods
This brief intends to answer the question: “What have food banks and community food programs nationally done to best address providing culturally relevant food?” Though significant efforts have been made to provide more culturally relevant food to communities in need, published and grey literature about actionable strategies to address this issue are scarce. This document…
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