Your Academy in Action 2024

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The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics – our members, our leaders, and our Headquarters Team – have made a strong commitment to seeking, creating, and implementing solutions to food and nutrition issues that affect all people, through advocacy and public policy. We are working to create a preferred future for the profession and members that support the Academy’s mission, vision, and Strategic Plan.

Performance Indicators 

1.1.5, 2.3.3, 3.2.1, 12.1.1

Learning Objectives

1. Know about current activities and recent developments at the Academy and the Foundation. 
2. Be more knowledgeable about important Academy initiatives in areas including but not limited to public policy and advocacy; membership recruitment, retention, and benefits; and student engagement and leadership opportunities.
3. Understand how members are the Academy, and how leadership and the Headquarters Team work with members to advance members’ personal and professional development.

Speaker

Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics 2023-2024 President

Wright is an associate professor and the director of nutrition programs at University of South Florida. Her specialties include food insecurity and health disparities, global nutrition, senior nutrition and the nutritional needs of people with AIDS. Wright was previously with University of North Florida, where she directed the DCN program, and the Center for Nutrition and Food Security, where she developed the Meals on Wings program. She formerly worked at the Veterans Administration as a clinical dietitian and dietetic internship director. Wright was a media spokesperson for the Academy; a past Speaker of the House of Delegates; past president of the Florida Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and a former board member of the Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics. Wright is a graduate of The Ohio State University. She earned a master's degree from Case Western Reserve University and a doctorate from the University of South Florida.