Full Name
Maria Kalaitzandonakes
Job Title
Assistant Professor
Company
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Speaker Bio
Maria Kalaitzandonakes is an Assistant Professor of agricultural and consumer economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on what we eat and why we eat it. Specifically, she evaluates how important sources of food information – from food labels to announcements – impact consumer preferences and demand. Her work aims to harness the power of food information to improve nutrition and food safety in the United States and to create and sustain value-added opportunities in agriculture.
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