Senior Economist
Rebecca Nemec Boehm
Rebecca Nemec Boehm is a Senior Economist in the Immediate Office of the Chief Economist.
Rebecca has expertise in the economics of food and nutrition assistance programs, nutrition science and policy, sustainability, and the environmental dimensions of agricultural production. Rebecca received her MS and PhD from the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and her BA in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Princeton University. Rebecca grew up in California’s Central Valley and served as a research intern at USDA’s Agricultural Research Service research station in Parlier, California in her younger years, collecting soil and water samples from alfalfa fields on the western edge of Fresno County.
