Kate Yerxa

Kate YerxaExtension Professor, EFNEP Coordinator
15 Estabrooke Drive, Room 201, Orono, ME 04469
Phone: 207.581.3109
Email: kate.yerxa@maine.edu

Kate’s professional interests are community nutrition; implementation and evaluation of educational programs designed for limited-income, food insecure population; breastfeeding promotion and education. Her research focuses on evaluation of direct education interventions and implementation and evaluation of policy, systems and environmental change to support healthy eating and physical activity behaviors.

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