Community Nutrition and Health

Contact Us

Statewide Team

Name	Title	Email
Amira Resnick Bio	Statewide Director	arresnick@ucanr.edu
Leslie Lipman Bio	Business Manager	lalipman@ucanr.edu
Kristin Cunningham Bio	Statewide Initiatives Project Coordinator	kracunningham@ucanr.edu
Christie Hedrick Bio	Statewide Coordinator, EFNEP	clhedrick@ucanr.edu
Jan Newman Bio	Nutrition Extension Assistant, EFNEP	jannew@ucanr.edu
Christine Davidson Bio	Training & Communications Lead, EFNEP	cdavidson@ucanr.edu
Vacant	Community Education Specialist, Vaccine Education
Carmela Padilla Bio	Regional Manager, Calfresh Healthy Living, UC	cmpadilla@ucanr.edu
Rosa Vargas Bio	Regional Manager, CalFresh Healthy Living, UC	rivargas@ucanr.edu

Academic Advisors - County-based

Name	Specialty	Counties	Email
Alexa Erickson Bio	Community Nutrition, Health & Food Systems	Contra Costa & Alameda	americkson@ucanr.edu
Azin Pourkhalili Bio	Youth, Families & Communities	Kern, Inyo & Mono	apourkhalili@ucanr.edu
Cristina Murillo Barrick Bio	Black, Indigenous & People of Color (BIPOC) Community Development	Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco & San Mateo	cmurillo@ucanr.edu
Grace Belt Bio	Assistant Cooperative Extension Area Youth, Families & Communities	Humboldt & Del Norte	kbelt@ucanr.edu
Irene Padasas Bio	Community Nutrition & Health	Tulare, Kings, Fresno & Madera	iopadasas@ucanr.edu
Janessa Hartmann Bio	Community Health & Nutrition	Shasta, Trinity, & Tehama	jlhartmann@ucanr.edu
Jasmin Smith Bio	Community Nutrition & Health	San Joaquin, Stanislaus & Merced	jasm@ucanr.edu
Katherine Soule Bio	Youth, Families & Communities	San Luis Obispo & Santa Barbara	kesoule@ucanr.edu
Kitty Oppliger Bio	Community Health & Nutrition	Central Sierra (Placer, Nevada, El Dorado, Amador, Calaveras & Tuolumne Counties)	koppliger@ucanr.edu
Laurie Wayne Bio	Nutrition & Food Systems	Modoc, Lassen & Siskiyou	lwayne@ucanr.edu;
Marcel Horowitz Bio	Youth, Families & Communities	Sacramento, Solano & Yolo	mhorowitz@ucanr.edu
Mary Blackburn Bio	Nutrition, Family & Consumer Sciences	Alameda	mlblackburn@ucanr.edu
Natalie Price Bio	Nutrition, Family & Consumer Sciences	Los Angeles & Orange	nmprice@ucanr.edu
Veronica VanCleave-Hunt Bio	Community Nutrition, Health & Food Security	Butte, Colusa, Glenn, Sutter & Yuba	vvancleavehunt@ucanr.edu
Yu Meng Bio	UC Cooperative Extension Youth, Family, & Community	Imperial	ucmeng@ucanr.edu
Zaw Wai Htoo Bio	Community Nutrition & Health	Marin, Sonoma & Napa	zhtoo@ucanr.edu
Laura Vollmer Bio	Community Nutrition & Health	Santa Clara, San Mateo, & San Francisco	lvollmer@ucanr.edu

Academic Expertise - Campus-based

Name	Title	Campus	Email
Carly Hyland Bio	Cooperative Extension Specialist in Environmental Health Sciences	UC Berkeley School of Public Health	chyland@berkeley.edu
Cassandra Nguyen Bio	UC Cooperative Extension Nutrition Specialist	UC Davis	casnguy@ucdavis.edu
Erin DiCaprio Bio	Specialist in Community Food Safety in the Department of Food Science & Technology	UC Davis	eldicaprio@ucdavis.edu
Jennifer Smilowitz Bio	UC Cooperative Extension Nutrition Specialist	UC Davis	jensm@ucdavis.edu
EXTERNAL IMAGE Karina Díaz Rios Bio	Cooperative Extension Specialist in Nutrition	UC Merced	kdiazrios@ucmerced.edu
Lenna Ontai Bio	UC Cooperative Extension Family & Early Childhood Specialist	UC Davis	lontai@ucdavis.edu
Susana Matias Bio	Cooperative Extension Specialist in the Department of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology	UC Berkeley	slmatias@berkeley.edu

Academic Expertise - Affiliated Programs and Institutes

Name	Title	Email
Hannah Thompson Bio	Director & UC Cooperative Extension Specialist, Nutrition Policy Institute	hrthomp@ucanr.edu
Miranda Westfall Bio	Academic Coordinator - Director, CalFresh Healthy Living Evaluation Unit, Nutrition Policy Institute	mrwestfall@ucanr.edu
Danielle Lee Bio	Director of Communications & Research Engagement, Nutrition Policy Institute	dnilee@ucanr.edu
Ally Lemmer Bio	4-H Youth Development Healthy Living Academic Coordinator	alemmer@ucanr.edu