Contact Us

Amira Resnick
Statewide Director, Community Nutrition and Health
Email: arresnick@ucanr.edu
Phone: 530-750-1357

Leslie Lipman
Business Manager
Email: lalipman@ucanr.edu
Phone: (530) 750-1254

Grace Belt
Assistant Cooperative Extension Area Youth, Families and Communities Advisor - Humboldt and Del Norte Counties
Email: kbelt@ucanr.edu

Mary Blackburn
Nutrition, Family and Consumer Sciences Advisor - Alameda County
Email: mlblackburn@ucanr.edu
Phone: (510) 670-5623

Karina Díaz Rios
Cooperative Extension Specialist in Nutrition, UC Merced
Email: kdiazrios@ucmerced.edu
Phone: (217) 552-6336

Erin DiCaprio
Specialist in Community Food Safety in the Department of Food Science and Technology, UC Davis
Email: eldicaprio@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 752-6594

Alexa Erickson
Community Nutrition, Health and Food Systems Advisor - Contra Costa and Alameda Counties
Email: americkson@ucanr.edu 
Phone: (530) 201-5332

Janessa Hartmann
Community Health and Nutrition Advisor - Shasta, Trinity, and Tehama Counties
Email: jlhartmann@ucanr.edu

Marcel Horowitz
Youth, Families and Communities Advisor - Sacramento, Solano & Yolo Counties
Email: mhorowitz@ucanr.edu

Zaw Wai Htoo
Community Nutrition and Health Advisor - Marin, Sonoma and Napa Counties
Email: zhtoo@ucanr.edu

Carly Hyland
Cooperative Extension Specialist in Environmental Health Sciences, UC Berkeley School of Public Health
Email: chyland@berkeley.edu

Danielle Lee
Registered Dietitian and Master of Public Health in Public Health Nutrition, Nutrition Policy Institute 
Email: dnilee@ucanr.edu
Phone: (510) 987-0735

Ally Lemmer
4-H Youth Development Healthy Living Academic Coordinator
Email: alemmer@ucanr.edu
Phone: (530) 750-1213

Susana Matias
Cooperative Extension Specialist in the Department of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology at UC Berkeley
Email: slmatias@berkeley.edu
Phone: (510) 642-0980

Yu Meng
UC Cooperative Extension Youth, Family, and Community Advisor - Imperial County
Email: ucmeng@ucanr.edu
Phone: (442) 265-7709

Cristina Murillo Barrick
Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) Community Development Advisor - Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco and San Mateo Counties
Email: cmurillo@ucanr.edu
Phone: (510) 305-3256

Cassandra Nguyen
UC Cooperative Extension Nutrition Specialist, UC Davis

Lenna Ontai
UC Cooperative Extension Family and Early Childhood Specialist
Email: lontai@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 752-6410 

Kitty Oppliger
Community Health and Nutrition Advisor - Central Sierra (Placer, Nevada, El Dorado, Amador, Calaveras and Tuolumne Counties)
Email: koppliger@ucanr.edu

Irene Padasas
Community Nutrition and Health Advisor - Tulare, Kings, Fresno and Madera Counties
Email: iopadasas@ucanr.edu
Phone: (559) 684-3300

Azin Pourkhalili
Youth, Families and Communities Advisor - Kern, Inyo and Mono Counties
Email: apourkhalili@ucanr.edu

Natalie Price
Nutrition, Family and Consumer Sciences Advisor - Los Angeles & Orange Counties
Email: nmprice@ucanr.edu
Phone: (626) 586-1948

Lorrene Ritchie
UC Cooperative Extension Nutrition Specialist, Emeritus
Founding Director, Nutrition Policy Institute
Email: lritchie@ucanr.edu

Jennifer Smilowitz
UC Cooperative Extension Nutrition Specialist, UC Davis
Email: jensm@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (888) 217-5355

Jasmin Smith
Community Nutrition and Health Advisor - San Joaquin, Stanislaus and Merced Counties
Email: jasm@ucanr.edu
 

Katherine Soule
Youth, Families and Communities Advisor - San Luis Obispo & Santa Barbara Counties
Email: kesoule@ucanr.edu 
Phone: (805) 781-5940

Hannah Thompson
Director, Nutrition Policy Institute, UC Cooperative Extension Specialist
Email: hrthomp@ucanr.edu 

Veronica VanCleave-Hunt
Community Nutrition, Health and Food Security Advisor - Butte, Colusa, Glenn, Sutter and Yuba Counties
Email: vvancleavehunt@ucanr.edu
Phone: (530) 552-5812

Laurie "Lio" Wayne
Nutrition and Food Systems Advisor - Modoc, Lassen and Siskiyou Counties
Email: lwayne@ucanr.edu 
Phone: (530) 233-6400

Miranda Westfall
Academic Coordinator - Director, CalFresh Healthy Living Evaluation Unit, Nutrition Policy Institute
Email: mrwestfall@ucanr.edu
Phone: (530) 306-1510