Dr. Wendi Gosliner is a Senior Researcher and Policy Advisor at the Nutrition Policy Institute, University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Nutritional Sciences from Cornell University, and her Master’s and Doctoral degrees in public health from UC Berkeley, where her dissertation explored the policy history of the National School Lunch Program. In 2013–2014, she was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow, serving as a health policy advisor to the Democratic Leader, Honorable Nancy Pelosi. She has conducted multiple studies on the National School Lunch Program, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, and other similar programs, and frequently teaches a course at UC Berkeley about food programs and policies. Her interests focus on the nexus of research, public policy, and community-based efforts to improve health, and her work aims to understand and improve policies and programs that affect population health and nutrition, with a focus on eliminating health disparities, improving food security, and addressing food system equity and environmental sustainability.