Courtney T Luecking is an Assistant Extension Professor at the Department of Dietetics and Human Nutrition, University of Kentucky. She is also a member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. She received her B.S. in Human Environmental Sciences from the University of Missouri at Columbia in 2006, her M.P.H., M.S. in Nutrition and Dietetics from St. Louis University in 2009, and her Ph.D. in Nutrition from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2019. Her prior work experiences have spanned clinical, community, and research settings, including inpatient hospitals and outpatient clinics, the Women, Infants, and Children program, and a research dietitian for projects related to obesity and metabolism at the Center for Human Nutrition at Washington University in St. Louis. She works to improve population health and health equity through facilitating cross-sector partnerships and developing, implementing, and evaluating multi-level interventions that elevate the quality of nutrition and feeding environments during the early childhood period.