Morgan McGhee, FoodCorps’ Director of School Nutrition Leadership, was recently featured on the Diversify Dietetics blog. Check out a snippet from her interview.
Morgan McGhee, FoodCorps’ Director of School Nutrition Leadership, was recently featured on the Diversify Dietetics blog. Check out a snippet from her interview:
I am Black American. I grew up in Alabama and while we ate typical “southern” food there was also a very strong influence in a “plant-based” diet. My parents were very committed to ensuring that my sisters and I knew how to cook. We had cooking days and it could not be something we “usually” ate. From a very young age, this helped me to be creative in the kitchen and to try new things that impacted my decision to become an RD.
I recently transitioned into a position as FoodCorps’ School Nutrition Leadership Director for the reWorking Lunch initiative. With collaboration from numerous stakeholders, the program will create a pipeline for the next generation of school food leaders. Our leadership program will launch in just over a year so during a typical week, I have phone calls and meetings with training partners or school district directors about core program elements and with internal stakeholders on best practices from our direct service program. I love my job because I am able to use my past experience as a menu planner, nutrition educator and operator while using my expertise in program planning, implementation and evaluation as a public health dietitian.
As I once said to a committee chair, “How can we represent student health if we do not have a representative committee?” If we truly want to impact health outcomes in this country, we have to be serious about who is a part of the conversation. It is more than having a “diverse” staff but truly challenging ourselves on understanding the systemic barriers to good health in the United States.
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