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As the Associate Director of Operations/EFNEP Coordinator for New York State, Michelle provides leadership and operational oversight under the guidance of the Director of FNEC. Michelle administers WebNEERS, ensuring the program meets its reporting and evaluation needs, and spearheads the development and implementation of training for EFNEP staff in both in-person and online formats.

Michelle coordinates the submission of budget projections and oversees expenditures, maintaining strict compliance with Institutional Review Board (IRB) and USDA/NIFA requirements

Deborah Sellers serves as the Director of Research and Evaluation for the Residential Child Care Project (RCCP) in the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research (BCTR).  In this position she facilitates research and evaluation activities in RCCP by identifying new avenues for research, supporting the development of new proposals, monitoring and/or assisting with data collection, processing, and analyses, and writing manuscripts for publication. Dr. Sellers also oversees the data collection efforts associated with the implementation of RCCP's Children

Marianella Casasola earned her undergraduate degrees in Psychology and Spanish Literature from the University of California, Berkeley. She earned her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin.  Her expertise is in infant cognitive development and early word learning with a particular interest in the interaction between language and thought during the first years of development. Along with her students, she examines various aspects of early cognitive and linguistic development, but is especially interested

Dr. Liz Johnson is an Associate Professor of Molecular Nutrition at Cornell University in the Division of Nutritional Sciences and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Freeman Hrabowski Scholar.  Her work focuses on understanding how metabolite production by the gut microbiome influences host phenotypes as well as how the lipid content of host diets affects the establishment of the microbiome.   She studied biology at Spelman College before pursuing a PhD investigating cell cycle transcriptomics at Princeton University.  Liz went on to

Joeva Barrow, Ph.D., R.D. is an Assistant Professor of Molecular Nutrition at Cornell University Division of Nutritional Sciences. She completed her Bachelor of Science degree in 2006 before completing her Masters and combined Dietetic internship program at the University of Florida in 2008 where she was certified as a Registered Dietitian.

While working at the frontlines in clinical dietetics providing medical nutrition therapy to patients with metabolic diseases, Dr. Barrow quickly discovered that despite the