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Dr. Gina Jarman Hill serves as the Chair of the Department of Nutritional Sciences. She joined the faculty of the Department of Nutritional Sciences in 2003. Dr. Hill earned her PhD in Nutrition from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX. Dr. Hill has worked as a clinical dietitian and as a consultant dietitian for a number of facilities. Hill is a Registered and Licensed Dietitian and a member of the Hunger and Environmental Nutrition (HEN) dietetic practice group and the Dietitians in Integrative and Functional Medicine dietetic practice group. Her current teaching responsibilities include Nutrition Ecology, Food and Sustainability, Essentials of Dietetic Practice, Community Nutrition and Public Health, and Infant and Child Nutrition. She served as the Director of the Didactic Program in Dietetics (DPD) from 2007- 2013 when she began her appointment as Director of the Coordinated Program (CP) in Dietetics where she served through 2021.  

Her current research interests include hunger and food security, sustainability, urban agriculture, and community nutrition education. Since 2013, Dr. Hill has collaborated with the University Christian Church (UCC) Weekday School (WDS) to create a community learning garden and educate preschool children in the Seed to Plate program.  

Hill is active in the community and serves on the Boards of the Tarrant County Food Policy Council (TCFPC) and the Mothers’ Milk Bank of North Texas. In addition, she leads the TCFPC’s Food Recovery Working Group and serves on Botanical Research Institute of Texas GROW Educational Advisory Council. She is also the faculty advisor for the TCU Food Recovery Network (FRN).

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