Nutrition Heroes

Gilbride is the recipient of the 2018 Marjorie Hulsizer Copher Award, the highest honor the Academy bestows on a member.

“I try to demonstrate organization, enjoyment, integrity, safety, kindness and providing challenging material in an atmosphere that promotes equality, respect and constructive feedback.”

Collazo-Colón is a clinical dietitian in the High Intensity Psychiatric Unit at the Central Alabama Veterans Health Care System in Tuskegee, Ala.

As a professor of nutrition, Derelian teaches students in classes such as food law and nutrition education and communications.

From the food placed on the plate to the people who prepare and serve it to kids, Hayes is a champion for school nutrition.

At the age of 7, Mascha Davis and her family became political refugees, fleeing the former Soviet Union and settling in the United States. Shaped by this experience and having traveled while growing up, Davis