Cooperative Extension
Community Nutrition Resources

Land-grant University Cooperative Extension Services Community Nutrition Programs

This website acts as a repository of resources to be used by Cooperative Extension Services (CES) at land-grant universities to deliver community nutrition programs.

This website is maintained by the Cooperative Extension Nutrition and Health Workgroup. For questions about tools found on this website or to add to the resource library, contact Lauren Sweeney at Lauren.Sweeney@sdstate.edu.

Meet the Current Team

Bottom to top, left to right: Jennifer McCaffrey, Oluwatemilorun (Temmy) Akinsanya, Jacquelyn White, Jayne McBurney, Jeannie Butel, Karla Shelnutt, Lea Palmer, Jo Britt-Rankin, Lauren Sweeney, Kerry Gabbert, Trish Olson, Kimberly Keller, Mindy Meuli, and Amy Hollar
Not pictured: Blake Connolly, Amber Canto, Macy Helm, Shewana McSwain, Matthew Vukovich, and Gina Wood


Members of the Nutrition and Health Workgroup 2025-2026

North Central Region 

  • Amber Canto, Director, Extension Institute for Health & Well-Being, University of Wisconsin
  • Kimberly Keller, Evaluation Specialist, Extension Health and Human Sciences, University of Missouri
  • Blake Connolly, Assistant Director, Extension Nutrition Education Program, Purdue University

Northeast Region

  • Gina Wood, EFNEP Extension Specialist, West Virginia University
  • Amy Hollar, State Specialist, Health & Well-Being, EFNEP and SNAP-Ed Principal Investigator, University of New Hampshire
  • Kerry Gabbert, Assistant Professor, Family Nutrition Program, West Virginia University

Southern Region

  • Karla Shelnutt, Extension Nutrition Specialist, State Program Leader for Nutrition, University of Florida
  • Jayne McBurney, SNAP-Ed Coordinator, North Carolina State University

Western Region

  • Jean Butel, Program Manager, University of Hawaii at Manoa
  • Mindy Meuli, Director, Cent$ible Nutrition Program, University of Wyoming
  • Lea Palmer, Assistant Director/Program Manager Create Better Health, Utah State University

1890 Universities

  • Shewana McSwain, SNAP-Ed Coordinator, North Carolina A&T

Executive Committee

  • Jennifer McCaffrey, Assistant Dean, Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Illinois
  • Matthew Vukovich, Associate Dean of Research/Professor, Education & Human Sciences
  • Lauren Sweeney, LGU Nutrition and Health Executive Director, South Dakota State University

Rotating Off

  • Patricia Olson, Associate Dean, University of Minnesota
  • Jacquelyn White, Program Leader, Family & Community Health, Prairie View A&M University, 1890 representative
  • Josh Phelps, Associate Professor-Nutrition, University of Arkansas
  • Macy Helm, SNAP-Ed Coordinator, University Nevada Reno
  • Helen Chipman, ex officio member, National Program Leader Food & Nutrition Education, NIFA/USDA