Angelica Pozzoli

Angelica Pozzoli is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Nutritional Sciences—Community/Applied Nutrition at Rutgers University School of Graduate Studies, New Brunswick, NJ. Her research project, HomeStyles 2 for Parents of School-Age Children is a childhood obesity prevention intervention that centers on theory-based nutrition education and health promotion to effect positive behavior change among families of school-age children. Angelica is concurrently pursuing her registered dietitian nutritionist (RDN) through the Individualized Supervised Practice Pathway (ISPP) Program at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Angelica has co-authored a peer-reviewed book chapter on the double burden of malnutrition and has worked for the New Brunswick Community Farmers Market (NBCFM), where she oversaw the day-to-day operations of the Farmers Market and handled various NJ Federal Assistance program benefits, including WIC and SNAP. As a bilingual, first-generation Uruguay-American, Angelica served as a translator and delivered nutrition education lessons in Spanish at the NBCFM, among other settings.