Bio: Veronica is currently in her third year of a dual masters program in Health Behavior at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and in the Department of City and Regional Planning, specializing in transportation. Her primary research interests include the intersection of the built environment, transportation and health, access to nutritious foods and physical activity, and chronic health disparities. She has been able to highlight and support the work of communities addressing these issues across the country as a graduate assistant at both Active Living By Design and the National Center for Safe Routes to School. Prior to graduate school, she worked as a Safe Routes to School Community Organizer with Feet First in Seattle, WA. Before that, she completed a national fellowship with the Congressional Hunger Center in Washington D.C.
Education: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, M.C.R.P. Department of City and Regional Planning 2013, M.P.H. Gillings School of Global Public Health, Department of Health Behavior 2013, Cornell University B.S. Nutritional Sciences with Honors 2008
Key Publications: Co-Author Master's Paper: "Carolina Campus Community Garden: Institutionalizing the Campus Community Garden as a Model for Sustainable Food and Gardening Education in the UNC Community," May 2012
Other Publications: Co-Author, White Paper: "Healthy Snack Vending: The Chicago Park District Experience & Resource Guide, November 2012"
Past Assignments: Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellowship Alumni Panel: "Hunger, Poverty, and Race in the Field", August 2011
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