Christine St. Pierre

Christie grew up working on a family farm in California, and prior to coming to GW, she worked as a Registered Dietitian to bring more fresh fruits and vegetables to children through school meals. She is interested in studying the intersections between diet-related chronic disease, disparities in food and nutrition security, and food systems. Her research at GW has focused on the food-related experiences of children and youth, including food insecurity and participation in school-based food education programs, and investigating connections between these experiences and dietary intake. She received a USDA NIFA predoctoral fellowship to fund her dissertation work to develop and test a questionnaire to measure food literacy in upper elementary schoolchildren.