Laura Vollmer(she/her)
Laura Vollmer, MPH, is a Community Nutrition and Health Advisor at the University of California Cooperative Extension serving San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Clara counties. She provides oversight to two federally funded nutrition education programs, CalFresh Healthy Living and the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP), and conducts locally relevant evaluation and research work, primarily focused on food and nutrition security and diet quality for children and families. Prior to joining UC Cooperative Extension, Laura was a staff researcher at the Nutrition Policy Institute
Laura Vollmer, MPH, is a Community Nutrition and Health Advisor at the University of California Cooperative Extension serving San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Clara counties. She provides oversight to two federally funded nutrition education programs, CalFresh Healthy Living and the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP), and conducts locally relevant evaluation and research work, primarily focused on food and nutrition security and diet quality for children and families. Prior to joining UC Cooperative Extension, Laura was a staff researcher at the Nutrition Policy Institute. She has long pursued an interest in food and nutrition: from running a summer camp kitchen in the Pocono mountains in Pennsylvania, to teaching at an elementary school garden program in Mountain View, CA, to fighting hunger at City Harvest, an emergency food provider in New York City, Laura has diverse experience working towards a better food system. Laura is a registered dietitian and holds a Masters in Public Health in Nutrition from the University of California, Berkeley and a BA in English from Wesleyan University. Laura co-leads the Policy, Systems, Environments Action Team (PSEAT) with Laura Urban.