Meet the Team

DIRECTOR

Virginia C. Stage, PhD, RDN is a mom, Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist, educator, and researcher with expertise in maternal and child nutrition. Virginia is currently an Assistant Professor and Nutrition Education & Behavior Specialist in the Department of Agricultural and Human Sciences Science at North Carolina State University in Greenville, NC where she teaches courses in Pediatric Nutrition and conducts research with young children. Over the past 10+ years, Dr. Stage has worked with 300+ P-8 teachers nationally on how to integrate nutrition education into their STEM classrooms.

Assistant director

Jocelyn Dixon, MS, MPH, RDN, LDN is the Assistant Director and research project coordinator for the Food-based Early Education (FEEd) Lab in the Department of Agricultural and Human Sciences at North Carolina State University. Jocelyn has worked with the FEEd Lab since 2016. Her expertise is in qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis, team and project management, stakeholder engagement, research quality control, and educational resource development. She assists in managing new and existing grant-funded programs (e.g., More PEAS Please!) as well as provide support for Agents/Educators through training, resource development, and more! Jocelyn is a Registered (RDN) and Licensed Dietitian (LDN) in North Carolina.