Announcement by Sara Elnakib, chair of the Department of Family and Community Health Sciences.
I am delighted to welcome Delma Yorimoto to SEBS/NJAES-RCE as our new Family and Community Health Sciences Senior Program Coordinator in Hudson County. Delma will lead our produce prescription, nutrition security and food policy efforts in Hudson County in this role. She will be settling into her office at 830 Bergen Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07306, and can be reached by her email at dy269@njaes.rutgers.edu.
Delma is coming to Rutgers as an FCHS Senior Program Coordinator with over eight years of experience working with the SNAP-Ed program both in New York and New Jersey. She has served as an educator and in management positions where she had the opportunity to lead the building and maintenance of the data infrastructure and procedures needed to support the program’s implementation. Delma has led the Healthy Pantry Initiative, Let’s Move 5K, and Just Say Yes to Fruits and Vegetable series. Delma also teaches Dynamics of Food and Society at Montclair State University. She has a master’s degree in business administration (MBA) from the Adventist University of Chile and a master’s degree in Nutrition Education from Montclair State University. Delma loves cooking and has culinary training from the Natural Gourmet Institute.
Please join me in welcoming Delma!