Baltimore, Maryland has been my home for almost a decade. I was lured to Charm City back in 2000 after accepting the 11 p.m. producer position at WBAL-TV. 6 years later, after winning a few awards, losing almost 200 lbs through diet and exercise, and getting married, I got out of my comfort zone and left my 15-year career in broadcast journalism to enter the world of public health and food policy. I spent the next 2 years working in Washington, DC as the Communications Director for the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production. The Commission, a joint project between the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and The Pew Charitable Trusts, studied the effects of intensive food animal production on public health, the environment, rural communities and animal welfare. Currently I am a Project Director at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, charged with leading health behavior change research for the Johns Hopkins Healthy Monday Project.