Rebecca Nemec Boehm

Rebecca has expertise in the economics of food and nutrition assistance programs, nutrition science and policy, food systems, and the environmental dimensions of agricultural production. Prior to joining OCE in 2022, Rebecca was a Senior Economist in the Food and Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists and worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Connecticut Agricultural and Resource Economics Department and at the UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health. 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.