Beyond the Grocery Gap: Beyond the Grocery Gap: Strategies for Supporting Rural and Indian Country Communities through the Healthy Food Financing Initiative

Born in Taiwan, Maggie You Ming grew up in Fremont, CA, and graduated from New York University in 2015 with a degree in nutrition and food studies with a concentration in dietetics and a minor in molecular and cell biology. As an undergraduate, she served as a student leader for a community garden on campus and organized with a coalition of environmental and social justice student groups. She also briefly studied agriculture, nutrition assistance policy, and food culture in Puerto Rico. Maggie You Ming holds a Master’s degree in Nutrition from the University of Rhode Island, where she worked as a research assistant on an intervention to improve nutrition environments in home-based child care, completed and presented a thesis on diet quality and acculturation in early child care education settings, and mentored several bright and hardworking undergraduate students.