BADD Committees
Fundraising
The Fundraising Committee is charged with raising capital to support BADD’s mission. The main goal of this committee is to ensure funds for BADD annual scholarships awarded to diverse students and interns in dietetics programs.
Xiomara Hart (Chair)
Christine Sinclair
Shelly DeBiasse
Rachel Andrade
Amy Gardner
Marissa Silver
Annual Meeting
The Annual Meeting Committee is charged with organizing, promoting and presenting the BADD Annual Meeting which will be held to provide dietetics students, interns and professionals in and around the Boston area information related to diversity, inclusion and equity in dietetics. Research-based presentations, programs, round table discussions, etc. for continuing professional education (CPE) units will be available.
Rachel Andrade (Co-Chair)
Yaris Melo (Co-Chair)
Grace Adeoye (Co-Chair)
Ligaya Rodriguez (Co-Chair)
Outreach & Mentoring
The Outreach & Mentoring Committee will work with students of all ages to inform them about dietetics as a profession in effort to encourage diverse students to enter the field. Additionally, this committee will establish a BADD Mentorship Program to connect under- and over-represented students, interns and professionals in dietetics in effort to support access to and retention of historically excluded groups in the profession.
Christina Zuniga (Co-Chair)
Joyce Faraj (Co-Chair)
Caroline Kohler
Stella Uzogara
Hannah Cai
Grace Adeoye
Joanne Dorgilus
Enjie Mora
Jay Patruno
Wendy Ng
Yaris Melo
Agatha Tam
Sue-Ellen Anderson-Haynes
Lisa Brown (Observer)
Deanny Belleny (Observer)
Scholarship Awards
This committee will be responsible for advertising, promoting, application development and review, and selection of diverse students and intern applicants for annual scholarship awards offered by BADD.
Jay Patruno (Chair)
Caroline Kohler
Caroline Allen
Stella Uzogara
Agatha Tam
Coleen Liscano
Communication & Events
This committee will work to develop quarterly events for BADD membership as well as application for “prior approved” CDR CPEs for qualifying events. This group will also create, publish and distribute our monthly newsletter “BADD News”. Finally this group works in support of our Social Media Manager to create content for posts on our BADD social media accounts (Twitter/Instagram @BADDietetics).
Ilana Patti (Social Media Manager)
Rachel Andrade (Co-Chair)
Quynh Tu (Co-Chair)
Amy Gardner (Newsletter lead)
Sue-Ellen Anderson-Haynes
Tangela Kindell
India Wilkerson
Iman Albader (Co-Chair)
Annie Lu
Diversifying Dietetics Education Programs
This committee, proposed by Lisa Brown of Simmons University, will engage to strategize and establish best-practices to diversify dietetics programs in and around the Boston area. Areas of focus within BADD include the development of educator and preceptor trainings around DEI.
Lisa Brown (Chair)
Kate Burt
Erin Reese
Christine Sinclair
Joanne Dorgilus
Enjie Mora
Shaynee Roper
Christine Zuniga
Amy Branham (Observer)
Jay Patruno (Observer)
Coleen Liscano (Observer)
Ligaya Rodriguez (Observer)
Diversity Research Strategy & BADD Program Evaluation
Recognizing the need for ongoing diversity, inclusion and equity research in dietetics as well as a structured program evaluation of BADD, this committee will work to develop a logic model and conduct process and outcomes evaluation for BADD.
Kate Burt (Co-Chair)
Erin Reese (Co-Chair)
Wendy Ng
Quynh Tu
Amy Branham
Deanna Belleny
Sue-Ellen Anderson-Haynes (Observer)
Coleen Liscano (Observer)
Joyce Faraj (Observer)