Alessandra DeMarchis | Honor Society®

Education

Western Maternal and Child Health Nutritional Partners Fellow, 2014-2015

Training fellowship designed to develop leadership, advance scholarship and promote partnerships for the improvement of the nutritional health of mothers and children, including those with special needs and their families, especially in the West.
Dora Agee Waller Scholarship, 2014

Scholarship awarded by the University of Washington to acknowledge outstanding academic achievement.
Women's Health - Dietetic Practice Group Outstanding Student in Women’s Health Award, 2015

Scholarship awarded by the Women's Health Dietetic Practice Group to acknowledge outstanding work in Women's Health.
Beverly Winter-Eben Student Service Award, 2015

Scholarship awarded by the University of Washington to acknowledge outstanding work in student service.

Career goal: Throughout my graduate career I have maintained the same professional goal of becoming a leader in maternal and child health and nutrition. As my education has taught me the importance of the first 1000 days of life, I hope I can work to increase access, availability and use of healthy foods by mothers and young children while also helping to improve breastfeeding policies and increase access to breastfeeding resources
Graduate school interests: Maternal and infant nutrition and health.

Student Volunteer

Millennium Villages Mbola Cataract Intervention

Jul 2011 – Jan 2013
Student Volunteer

National Ability Center

Jun 2006 – Aug 2006

Organizations