Angela Tagtow
The Agriculture Department’s Food, Consumer and Nutrition Service has hired Angela Tagtow as executive director of the Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion.

Tagtow is founder and principal of Environmental Nutrition Solutions, LLC, an Elkart, Iowa, consulting firm “aimed at leveraging communications, partnerships and policies that build healthy, accessible and resilient food systems,” USDA said in an email.

She also serves as a senior fellow at the Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture at the University of Minnesota.

She is the project coordinator for a statewide food gardening social marketing campaign titled Cultivate Iowa, as well co-founder of the Iowa Food Systems Council, and coordinator of the Iowa Food Access and Health Work Group.

Tagtow has worked for the Iowa Department of Public Health with the Iowa Special Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), and most recently with the Iowa Community Transformation Grant on integrating food systems into public health practice.

Tagtow received a bachelor of arts degree in dietetics and a minor in chemistry from the University of Northern Iowa, and a master of science degree in family and consumer sciences education from Iowa State University.

She is a former food and society policy fellow with the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, and has received several awards, including Emerging Young Dietitian of the Year Award from the Iowa Dietetic Association and an Outstanding Leadership Award from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetic’s Hunger and Environmental Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group.

The Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion (CNPP) was created within the Agriculture Department in 1994. Together with the Food and Nutrition Service, CNPP reports to the Office of the Undersecretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services. CNPP’s mission is to develop and promote dietary guidance that links scientific research to the nutrition needs of consumers.

The staff at CNPP is composed primarily of nutritionists, nutrition scientists, dietitians, economists, and policy experts. CNPP staff help define and coordinate nutrition education policy within USDA and to translate nutrition research into information and materials.

▪ USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion
▪ Environmental Nutrition Solutions