Becky Ramsing
Senior Program Officer II
Becky joined the Center in 2016 to lead it in research, communication, and practice that will help facilitate a shift toward sustainable, healthy diets globally. She also manages the Center’s science advisory role to the Meatless Monday Campaign.
Prior to joining the CLF, Becky worked with University of Maryland as a Technical Advisor for Nutrition and Food Security for projects in Afghanistan and Ethiopia, helping women produce and utilize food for family consumption and income generation. She also consulted for county-wide community, worksite, and school-based organizations developing and implementing health and nutrition programs.
Her interest in food began early in life and was further ignited while studying nutrition at University of California, Davis and working for Sunset Magazine developing and testing new recipes. Early in her career as a registered dietitian, she worked clinically at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and then internationally developing a clinic-based diabetes nutrition education program in Tanzania. She returned to the states to obtain her master’s in public health degree from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and has since continued to focus on helping individuals and organizations make healthful, lifestyle choices that are evidence based, relevant, and sustainable. She has extensive experience initiating and overseeing health and nutrition programs and research projects, and she loves creative problem solving that includes networking and collaboration.
Linking nutrition with agriculture has been a focus of her passion and work over the past years––from working with local farmers and food suppliers, to promoting consumption of local foods, to helping resource limited families here and abroad access fresh, affordable food. Becky believes good nutrition for everyone relies first on a healthy, sustainable, and equitable food system. Becky is active as a board member of a nonprofit that supports a Ugandan organization serving orphans and vulnerable families. She is an avid runner and is passionate about all things vegetables and beans—from soil to table—and loves gardening, cooking and eating.