Emelia Kpinpuo

• Teaching students virtual and in person nutrition education and recipe preparation, while encouraging them to appreciate food from diverse cultures.
• Hosting virtual and in person caregiver workshops on healthy eating habits, food safety, and meal planning.
• Providing caregivers with resources for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Programs and community health resources in their neighborhoods.
• Developing materials for nutrition education activities and workshops for low income and homeless populations
• Evaluated program effectiveness through surveys, interviews, and focus groups.

Key Accomplishments:

• Teaching students about the importance of healthy eating for good health, growth and development. Promoting healthy habits and practices in outreach materials and presentation that helped participants reflect on and build awareness of the social, and cultural influences of eating healthy on their quality of life.

• Writing the Food Explorers and Sports Nutrition curriculum for New York Edge’s diverse after school program.
• Creating educational materials on wellness related topics such as exercise, nutrition and stress management for our bi-weekly news letter.
• Organizing chopped competitions and wellness workshops encouraging students to gain an adventurous palate, explore their senses and build basic math skills.
• Organized events with with Girls L.E.A.D, a program to empower and equip young women to have positive relationships with their self, others.
• Collaborated with vendors to arrange contracts for services or products needed by the organization.
• Conducting interviews with potential candidates for open positions within the organization.
• Provided leadership, insight and mentoring to newly hired Wellness Specialists to supply knowledge of various nutrition education best practices, and classroom management.

Key Accomplishments:

• Cultivating strong relationships and establishing a great rapport with staff and students, encouraging them to learn about all the components that go into being healthy including the different types of exercise as well as their benefits, nutrition and mental health.

• Preparing standardized lunches for patients expanding their understanding of vital nutrition-related concepts helping them develop a better relationship with food.
• Assisting patients in plating their meals teaching them about basic serving size estimates from each food group for portioning.
• Sitting and eating meals with patients promoting a safe space for them to feel at ease, understanding of the fear that they experience around eating and restoring weight.
• Conducting mindfulness groups, and nutrition science educating patients on the importance of eating a balanced diet.
• Teaching patients why and how all foods fit in balance with variety and moderation.
• Taking patient vital signs, and recording vitals and meal notes into KIPU electronic medical system.

Key Accomplishments:

• Providing nutrition care to patients in a comfortable “real world” setting, working with great sensitivity and in close collaboration with them to guide them to a life free from the rigidity, preoccupation, and isolation of their illness.

• Performing pediatric and adult nutrition counseling for busy outpatient nutrition department, maintaining accurate, up to date confidential patient files
• Developing meal plans for individuals with special dietary needs based on nutritional analysis of current diets.
• Teaching individuals with diabetes carbohydrate counting and lifestyle modification techniques.
• Facilitating healthy living classes on topics such as weight management, diabetes prevention, and heart health awareness.
• Creating educational materials such as handouts and fact sheets in order to educate patients about healthy eating habits.
• Conducting research and writing reports on the impact of food choices on health outcomes.

Key Accomplishments: Increased participating of public in community outreach programs to promote healthy eating habits among at-risk populations.