Healthy Families & Communities Panel Members
How the Panel helps
The SI Panels help
Unify
1. Create vision, 2. Identify themes & priorities, 3. Input to Strategic Plan, 4. Hold meetings, 5. Operate a think tank, 6. Help build capacity, 7. Input to staffing needs, and 8. Manage grants
Communicate
1. Collate stories & highlights, 2. Develop materials (white papers, etc.), 3. Foster debate
Advocate
1. Represent UC ANR and the SI, 2. Engage stakeholders and government, 3. Raise awareness, 4.Represent on Program Council
Initiative Leader
Lynn Schmitt-McQuitty
Title: Statewide 4-H Director, Interim Director for County Cooperative Extension
Specialty: Positive Youth Development, Youth Science Literacy, Leadership
Phone: 530-750-1334
Email: lschmittmcquitty@ucanr.edu
Title: Statewide 4-H Director, Interim Director for County Cooperative Extension
Specialty: Positive Youth Development, Youth Science Literacy, Leadership
Phone: 530-750-1334
Email: lschmittmcquitty@ucanr.edu
Panel Members
Nathaniel W. Caeton
Title: 4-H Youth Development Advisor
Specialty: 4-H Youth Development Program
Phone: 530-224-4900
Email: nwcaeton@ucanr.edu
Title: 4-H Youth Development Advisor
Specialty: 4-H Youth Development Program
Phone: 530-224-4900
Email: nwcaeton@ucanr.edu
Dr Lucy Diekmann
Title: Urban Agriculture/Food Systems Advisor, Santa Clara & San Mateo Counties
Phone: 408-282-3104
Email: lodiekmann@ucanr.edu
Title: Urban Agriculture/Food Systems Advisor, Santa Clara & San Mateo Counties
Phone: 408-282-3104
Email: lodiekmann@ucanr.edu
Dorina M Espinoza PhD
Title: Youth, Families and Communities Advisor
Specialty: Positive Youth Development, Nutrition Education, Food Preservation, Food Systems with a focus on emergency response
Phone: 707-445-7351
Email: dmespinoza@ucanr.edu
Title: Youth, Families and Communities Advisor
Specialty: Positive Youth Development, Nutrition Education, Food Preservation, Food Systems with a focus on emergency response
Phone: 707-445-7351
Email: dmespinoza@ucanr.edu
Wendi Gosliner
Title: Project scientist
Specialty: Food policies and programs, health equity, food systems, children's nutrition
Phone: (510) 642-1779
Email: wgosliner@ucanr.edu
Title: Project scientist
Specialty: Food policies and programs, health equity, food systems, children's nutrition
Phone: (510) 642-1779
Email: wgosliner@ucanr.edu
Vikram Swaroop Chandra Koundinya
Title: Evaluation Specialist (Assistant CE Specialist)
Specialty: Program evaluation, needs assessment, mixed-methods evaluation/research
Phone: 5304000345
Email: vkoundinya@ucdavis.edu
Title: Evaluation Specialist (Assistant CE Specialist)
Specialty: Program evaluation, needs assessment, mixed-methods evaluation/research
Phone: 5304000345
Email: vkoundinya@ucdavis.edu
Dr Yu Meng
Title: Youth Family and Community Advisor
Specialty: Nutrition Science, Nutrition Education and Behavior
Phone: 442-265-7709
Email: ucmeng@ucanr.edu
Title: Youth Family and Community Advisor
Specialty: Nutrition Science, Nutrition Education and Behavior
Phone: 442-265-7709
Email: ucmeng@ucanr.edu
Keith C. Nathaniel Ed.D.
Title: County Director & 4-H Youth Development Advisor
Specialty: Adolescent Development; Educational Planning; Social Capital and Community Networks
Notes: Mailing address: PO Box 22255, Los Angeles, CA 90022
Phone: (626) 586-1970
Email: kcnathaniel@ucanr.edu
Title: County Director & 4-H Youth Development Advisor
Specialty: Adolescent Development; Educational Planning; Social Capital and Community Networks
Notes: Mailing address: PO Box 22255, Los Angeles, CA 90022
Phone: (626) 586-1970
Email: kcnathaniel@ucanr.edu
Marisa Neelon
Title: Nutrition, Family & Consumer Sciences Advisor
Specialty: Food security and the prevention of childhood obesity and chronic disease in populations with low-income.
Phone: 925-608-6681
Email: mqneelon@ucanr.edu
Title: Nutrition, Family & Consumer Sciences Advisor
Specialty: Food security and the prevention of childhood obesity and chronic disease in populations with low-income.
Phone: 925-608-6681
Email: mqneelon@ucanr.edu
Lenna L Ontai Ph.D
Title: Family and Early Childhood Specialist
Specialty: parent-child interactions; parenting; early socialization; parenting and child feeding
Phone: (530) 752-6410
Email: lontai@ucdavis.edu
Title: Family and Early Childhood Specialist
Specialty: parent-child interactions; parenting; early socialization; parenting and child feeding
Phone: (530) 752-6410
Email: lontai@ucdavis.edu
Keith Taylor
Title: Assistant Specialist in CE, Community Economic Development
Specialty: Public entrepreneurship, Institutional development, Governance, Public policy, Community Economic Development
Email: keitaylor@ucdavis.edu
Title: Assistant Specialist in CE, Community Economic Development
Specialty: Public entrepreneurship, Institutional development, Governance, Public policy, Community Economic Development
Email: keitaylor@ucdavis.edu
Steven M. Worker PhD
Title: 4-H Youth Development Advisor
Specialty: Educational research; design and research of out-of-school (informal) learning environments; positive youth development; science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education
Phone: 415-761-1020
Email: smworker@ucanr.edu
Title: 4-H Youth Development Advisor
Specialty: Educational research; design and research of out-of-school (informal) learning environments; positive youth development; science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education
Phone: 415-761-1020
Email: smworker@ucanr.edu
Contact Information
To learn more about this initiative, contact the Initiative Leader, Lynn Schmitt-McQuitty.
For media inquiries, contact Pamela Kan-Rice.