Thursday before speaking to Heidi Anderson we were given time to check out the research Expo at the convocation center. I got to check out Ryan, Remi, and Lauren's presentations and they all looked great! I also got a chance to check out my other friends research who are outside of the nutrition field.
Heidi Anderson is the education and special events coordinator at WellWorks. As we learned before from meeting Francie, the programs are funded mainly through memberships and the services they offer. For me, it was exciting to learn that though Heidi is an RD, she is actually using her masters in health education to do her job. This interested me since I am not a nutrition major anymore, and I have been looking into getting a masters somewhere in the public health or education field. We learned that Heidi does a lot of event planning for Well Works such as Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) and the Coronary Health Improvement Project (CHIP), as well as smaller special events like cooking demos and walks. I really liked learning about the CSA because it makes local produce available more easily to community members. Participants by a share in a farmer's crop on a year-to-year basis, and for 20 weeks you can get a box of fresh produce every week. Heidi said they are currently working on taking this program university-wide. This program is so great because not only because having more produce is healthier, it is also supporting local agriculture which helps our local economy! After feeling a little hesitant about changing my major, meeting Heidi has given me hope that I can still help people live a healthy lifestyle without being an RD.
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