SNAP-Ed Resources

LGU SNAP-Ed

Implemented at 58 land-grant universities (LGUs) in 49 states and territories, SNAP-Ed helps millions of individuals with low income make healthy food and lifestyle choices each year. LGU SNAP-Ed programs coordinate with many local, state, and national partners to conduct programming. One of the most fruitful relationships an LGU can have is their relationship with the greater LGU system and universities implementing SNAP-Ed elsewhere. This website is a dedicated space for LGU SNAP-Ed programs to find and share resources pertaining to all aspects of SNAP-Ed.


In addition to this site, LGU SNAP-Ed programs also have a website dedicated to educating decision makers about SNAP-Ed programming conducted through LGUs.

Program Development Team

This website is maintained by the LGU SNAP-Ed Program Development Team (PDT), a group of administrators, faculty, coordinators, and other state level staff from 1862 and 1890 land-grant institutions. 


The members of the PDT use their listening, communication, and thinking skills and experience to strengthen SNAP-Ed programs and nutrition networks at the state, regional, and national levels. Diversity is embraced in drawing upon the unique experiences, skills, backgrounds, responsibilities, thinking and operating styles of team members and the respective institutions and regions of the country that they represent. Team members volunteer time and effort to foster communication and understanding of SNAP-Ed programming among federal and state/university organizational systems, provide leadership to professional/staff development and program planning, management, reporting, and evaluation, and identify linkages that can be forged to support the land-grant university system’s broader outreach, education, and research mission and cooperation with other partners. Potential members are recommended by their peers and supervisors. Members serve three-year, staggered terms. They reflect a balance in terms of program size, geographic location, and institutional affiliation.

Meet the Current Team

2023 PDT team

Bottom to top, left to right Jacquelyn White (Prairie View A&M University), Jennifer McCaffrey (University of Illinois), Gina Crist (University of Delaware), Andrea Morris (Alabama A&M University), Heidi LeBlanc (Utah State University), Patricia Olson (University of Minnesota), Karla Shelnutt (University of Florida), Gina Wood (West Virginia University), Mindy Meuli (University of Wyoming), Macy Helm (University of Nevada), Lauren Sweeney (Program Development Team), Jeannie Butel (University of Hawaii), Helen Chipman (NIFA), Jo Britt-Rankin (University of Missouri), Amber Canto (University of Wisconsin), Josh Phelps (University of Arkansas), PDT member not pictured: Shea Austin-Cantu (Tennessee State University) Matt Vukovich (South Dakota State University)

 


Members of the LGU SNAP-Ed Program Development Team for 2023-2024

North Central Region

  • Patricia Olson, Associate Dean, University of Minnesota
  • Amber Canto, Director, Extension Institute for Health & Well-Being, University of Wisconsin (new)


Northeast Region

  • Gina Crist, Community Health Specialist, University of Delaware
  • Gina Wood, EFNEP Extension Specialist, West Virginia University (new)
  • Angela Odoms-Young, Director of the Food and Nutrition Education in Communities Program (FNEC) and New York State Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) (new)

Southern Region

  • Shea Austin Cantu, Community Nutrition Education Program Director (EFNEP and SNAP-Ed), Tennessee State University, 1890 representative 
  • Jacquelyn White, Program Leader, Family & Community Health, Prairie View A&M University, 1890 representative 
  • Karla Shelnutt, Extension Nutrition Specialist, State Program Leader for Nutrition, University of Florida (new)
  • Josh Phelps, Associate Professor-Nutrition, University of Arkansas (new)

Western Region

  • Jean Butel, Program Manager, University of Hawaii at Manoa
  • Macy Helm, SNAP-Ed Coordinator, University Nevada Reno
  • Mindy Meuli, Director, Cent$ible Nutrition Program, University of Wyoming

Executive Committee

  • Jo Britt-Rankin, Extension Professor, Administrative Director for SNAP-Ed and EFNEP, University of Missouri
  • Jennifer McCaffrey, Assistant Dean, Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Illinois
  • Andrea Morris, Interim Associate Director and PI/Program Manager EFNEP and SNAP-Ed, Alabama A&M University
  • Matthew Vukovich, Associate Dean of Research/Professor, Education & Human Sciences, South Dakota State University
  • Lauren Sweeney, LGU SNAP-Ed PDT Assistant, Program Development Team
  • Helen Chipman, ex officio member, National Program Leader Food & Nutrition Education, NIFA/USDA
Rotating Off – April 2023
  • Sylvia Byrd, Project Director, 4-H Family and Consumer Sciences, Mississippi State University
  • Rebecca Henne, Associate Program Leader and State SNAP-Ed Coordinator, Michigan State University
  • Heidi LeBlanc, SNAP-Ed Director, Utah State University