Carlos Roberto Soto-Díaz Email & Phone Number

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

• Created and sent a survey to 30 community partners to understand the progress on the goals of the Wake County Food Security Plan. • Developed a literature review about food insecurity in Wake County to inform key stakeholders about the impact of COVID-19 on food insecurity. • Assisted in the development of an evaluation framework for the Wake County Food Security Plan in order to facilitate data analysis. • Interviewed over 15 Latinx community members and Latinx organizations in order to increase understanding of strengths and needs related to food insecurity in their communities.• Developed a report discussing strategies to address food insecurity among Latinxs to include in the next Wake County Food Security Plan.

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

• Provided guidance to a group of 15 students about how to write an effective lesson plan. • Graded 6 lesson plans by giving written feedback about strengths and weaknesses to students. • Taught a lesson to a group of 15 students about effective conflict management strategies and knife skills, in order to prepare them for teaching in the community. • Facilitated weekly discussions between student groups about their experiences teaching in the community.

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

• Promoted health and wellness around campus in several events by making healthy recipes, giving information about healthy eating around campus, and delivering general nutrition education to more than 200 students.

Raleigh, North Carolina

• Developed a major part of a lesson plan and delivered a lesson about healthy Thanksgiving dishes to 8 refugees. • Attended 6 nutrition education lessons that targeted school-aged children, seniors, and refugees. • Gave personalized feedback about strengths and weaknesses while teaching after each of the 6 lessons in the community to a group of 5 students. • Assisted preparing recruitment materials for community partners.• Facilitated discussions between student groups about their experiences teaching in the community. • Developed a written guide with advice for future Teaching Assistants of the class to facilitate their experience.

Raleigh, North Carolina

• Graded around 25 assignments 7 times per semester, providing written feedback to students about how to improve their answers.• Assisted a class of 75 students with questions regarding the assignments and the course, by communicating with them in person or by email.

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

• Assisted administering surveys in English and Spanish at 6 sites in the community to facilitate data collection.• Using Qualtrics, entered quantitative and qualitative data collected from over 200 surveys from the Grocery Bags for Seniors program.• Translated surveys for the Mobile Market program from English to Spanish to facilitate completion for Spanish speakers, impacting over 50 participants.• Assisted in 2 focus groups of 8 persons by asking probe questions and writing qualitative data about the experiences of the participants with the Grocery Bags for Seniors Program.• Using Microsoft Excel, developed a data report in order to facilitate data analysis of all quantitative and qualitative data collected from the Grocery Bags for Seniors Program.

Ann Arbor, Michigan

• Developed a literature review about social isolation in seniors to inform the UNITE Collaborative and other key stakeholders the rationale for considering social determinants of health for community benefit.• Generated a questionnaire for key stakeholders in order to understand how their services address social isolation in seniors. • Developed a poster about food insecurity in Lenawee County and presented it at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, GA.

Adrian, Michigan, United States

• Produced an updated list of food pantries available at Lenawee County to facilitate food access for people who are food insecure. • Using ArcGIS software, developed a map to identify percentage of food insecurity in the County and location of food pantries to evaluate how food insecurity is being addressed. • Using Microsoft Excel, created 4 graphs describing overall food insecurity, child food insecurity, location and number of food pantries, and eligibility for federal nutrition programs, to raise awareness about food insecurity in the County. • Developed and delivered a 15-minute PowerPoint presentation to the Board of Health to inform about food insecurity in the County and suggest recommendations of how to address it in the future.

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

• Visited 2 childcare sites and recorded observation data about the behavior and food consumption patterns of the children. • Assisted by preparing, packaging, measuring, and recording weight of specific fruit and vegetable items before and after consumption by children.

Master Of Public Health - Mph, Applied Epidemiology

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Nutrition Sciences

Biology, General