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Biography
After receiving a B.A. in Psychology Research, Melanie built practical, in the field skills working as a retail entrepreneur, and creative freelance practitioner specializing in data management, service design and operations management. In 2016, she earned a Food Innovation certificate degree, from University of Messina, Sicily and shortly after worked as a “food systems” fellow with Extension Foundation (formerly eXtension). While working in her current role with the University of California Cooperative Extension, Melanie completed her Master of Arts in Social Innovation and Sustainability. Her thesis and final arts-based inquiry project includes a field guide blueprint for engaging residents and businesses in community food systems planning. The guide aims to increase local food production and local food consumption at the intersection of global food systems, community health and wellness.
Education
Specialty
Community Food Systems, Foodmaking, Entrepreneurship, Local Economics, Partnership and Stakeholder Engagement, Grant Writing, Fiscal Budget Management, Report Writing and Qualitative Arts-Based Evaluation Methods.Areas of Expertise (click to see all ANR academics with this expertise)
- Food
- New and Improved Food Processing Technologies
- Home Food Production
- Program and Project Design, and Statistics
- Communication, Education, and Information Delivery
- Healthy Lifestyle
- Nutrition Education and Behavior
- Nutrition and Hunger in the Population
- Agroforestry
- Outdoor Recreation
- Youth Development
- Community Development
- Economics of Agricultural Production and Farm Management
- Market Economics