Mariana Chilton
Professor of Practice, Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health and Health Sciences
Mariana Chilton is Professor of Practice at the School of Public Health and Health Sciences in the Department of Nutrition. Her research and programming expertise is on food security, trauma, and economic empowerment with mothers of young children. Before joining UMass, she was a professor in Health Policy and Management in Philadelphia and founded and directed the award-winning Center for Hunger-Free Communities which developed solutions to hunger and economic insecurity. Dr. Chilton served as the Co-chair of the National Commission on Hunger meant to advise Congress and the United States Department of Agriculture on how to improve anti-poverty programs. She has testified before the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives and served as advisor to Sesame Street and the Institute of Medicine. Dr. Chilton’s work has been covered in the feature-length documentary A Place at the Table, and in the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, public radio, and CBS National News.