Areas of Expertise
Food and nutrition security
Federal nutrition assistance programs
Early childhood nutrition
Food Story
Some of Duffy’s favorite childhood memories are from annual trips to pick cherries in the NC mountains with family and friends (and eating all the cherry pie afterwards). They would road trip up with two or three other families and her parents would set them loose in the orchard with a bucket. Duffy would spend hours climbing in the trees and picking as many cherries as she could find (and launching a few at her sister). She hopes to pass on this tradition to her son, Rory.
Academic History
Ph.D., Nutrition, Minor: Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2023
Dissertation: Estimating the Effects of the Shock of the COVID-19 Pandemic and a Fruit
and Vegetable Benefit Increase on Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women,
Infants, and Children (WIC) Participants in North Carolina: A Mixed Methods Study
M.P.H., R.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2014
B.A. , Biology, Minors: Chemistry, Medical Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2012
Professional Affiliations
Member, Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior