Kate Yerxa
Extension Professor, EFNEP Coordinator
15 Estabrooke Drive, Room 201, Orono, ME 04469
Phone: 207.581.3109
Email: kate.yerxa@maine.edu
Kate’s educational programming focuses on implementing community-based programs for populations with limited income and food insecurity, along with policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) change interventions to support healthy eating and physical activity behaviors. Kate also provides technical assistance to school and community organizations interested in developing food and nutrition programs. Her research focuses on evaluating those community programs and PSE interventions. Kate also holds a joint teaching appointment with the School of Food and Agriculture at the University of Maine.
Education:
- M.S., Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Maine, Orono, 2003
- B.S., Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Maine, Orono, 1997
Work-related Certificates:
- 2004 Registered Dietitian, Commission on Dietetic Registration
Professional Organizations:
- 2002–present: Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
- 2002–present: Maine Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
- 2003–present: Maine Nutrition Council
- 2008–present: Society for Nutrition Education, member