Manager of the Raleigh Food Corridor (www.raleighfoodcorridor.org)Focus Group Facilitator and Writer for the Wake County Comprehensive Food Security Plan

Traveled across the U.S. working on farms in Illinois, Kentucky, Minnesota, and Lopez Island, Washington. Gained experience in organic vegetable production, value-added products, and a commercial composting operation as well as raising dairy goats, poultry, cattle, pigs, and sheep.

Worked on domestic public health consulting projects including technical assistance, quantitative and qualitative program evaluation, social media and website management, proposal and report development. Primary focus areas included healthy communities (policy and environmental changes to support healthy eating and physical activity) and maternal and child health, with additional project experience in cancer disparities and survivorship, substance use, infectious disease, and emergency preparedness.Selected Projects: MetroWest Moves (2012-2016) - Provided coordination and technical assistance to Framingham, Hudson, Marlborough, and Northborough, MA in the implementation of a Community Transformation Grant (2012-2014) and a Mass in Motion Municipal Wellness & Leadership Program Grant. Facilitated meetings with local Boards of Health, community planners, schools, and other community partners. The goal of this initiative is to facilitate opportunities for community members to engage in healthy eating and active living including the following strategies: Farmers’ Markets, Healthy Dining, Complete Streets/Community Design, and Safe Routes to School. Manage social media and website (www.metrowestmoves.org).Healthy Aging through Healthy Community Design, Hudson, MA (2016) - Project Manager & Focus Group FacilitatorNarragansett Prevention Partnership Evaluation Services (2016) - Project Manager & Lead EvaluatorCancer Disparities Capacity Building Pilot Project (2014-2016) - Project Manager & Technical Assistance ProviderMissouri Healthy Eating Active Living Evaluation (2016) - EvaluatorMassachusetts Ebola Monitoring Project (2015) - Consultant EpidemiologistPresentations:Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Boston, MA, February 2016; Guest Lecture for "Community and Public Health Nutrition" course: MetroWest Moves: Policy and Environmental Approaches to Physical Activity and Healthy Eating.

Selected Projects:New England Community for Cancer Survivorship Focus Groups (2014-2015) Boston Healthy Start Initiative and Healthy Baby Healthy Child Perinatal Quality Improvement Project (2014) Cancer Disparities/Health Equity Strategic Planning Needs Assessment (2014)The Women’s Lunch Place Program Evaluation (2012)Researching Disparities in Cervical Cancer among Black, non-Hispanic Women in Massachusetts (2012)Presentations: Mass in Motion Coordinator’s Training, Boylston, MA, June 2015; Presentation: Beck J, Hynson J. Telling our Story in MetroWest: Using Social Media.Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, November 2014; Lecture for "The Obesity Epidemic: Moving from Individual to Environmental and Policy Approaches for Promoting Physical Activity and Healthy Eating" course: Hynson J. MetroWest Moves Healthy Dining Initiative.Mass in Motion Action Institute, Worcester, MA, April 2014; Presentation: Calise TV, Hynson J, Ryder A. Access to Healthy Foods: MetroWest Healthy Dining Week.