Rising Higher: Watch ‘Meghan’s Story: Master’s in Nutrition and Integrated Health’

Meghan, a UW-Green Bay graduate student is passionate about helping people through the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Program. While working there as a Dietetic Technician, she realized that she wanted to rise higher in her career and decided to enroll in UW-Green Bay’s Master of Science in Nutrition and Integrated Health program. Learning more about food and how a person’s health is about ALL aspects of life, is fueling her degree pursuit. She credits her professors for supporting her as she balances her class schedule, work and family. Listen to Meghan’s rise in her own words, below.

Transcript: So, I was working as a nutritionist in the Women, Infants, Children Program, the WIC Program. And the WIC Program only required you to be a Dietetic Technician to be a nutritionist there. Ah, but I kind of hit a wall and I wanted to climb higher in that program, I’m really passionate about it and so, I needed to be a Registered Dietitian. So, I decided to come to the Master’s Nutrition and Integrated Health Program here at UWGB. My favorite class so far is Medical Nutrition Therapy 1 and Medical Nutrition Therapy 2. She really focuses on how health is not just about eating healthy but it’s about all aspects of our lives. So, in the dietetic master’s program, we have a lot of hands-on. One of my favorite classes is Culinary Medicine, where we just really learn about the healthy foods but then also how to make them taste good. So, those are probably some of my favorites is working in the STEM Kitchen Lab. So, the supervised practicums in the program are community nutrition, food service and clinical. So, we get to explore the field of where Registered Dietitians work, uh so that we can choose what we’re best suited for. So, it’s been hard balancing kids, a spouse, a job, that I want to go back to and school but the staff here has been really supportive. Um to just kind of help me make accommodations a little bit so that I can get my classes done but then also balance my life into it. So, after I graduate with my Master’s degree in Nutrition, I will be returning to the Winnebago County Health Department hopefully heading up the WIC Program, the Women, Infants, Children Program or being a project nutritionist and continuing to help people in my community.