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Niyeti Shah

Sr Mgr Of Social Impact
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As the Senior Manager of Social Impact, Niyeti leads both the Healthy Living Coalition and WW Good. In this role, Niyeti focuses on bringing to life programs and initiatives that drive impact towards making good food a reality for all. Before joining WW, Niyeti was an Associate Director at the Milken Institute’s Center for Public Health, leading the Sustainable Food Systems Initiative focusing on food procurement policy and improving access to WIC. Prior to her time at Milken, Niyeti worked on food access, federal nutrition programs, and program management with various organizations including Partnership for a Healthier America, Food Research and Action Center, the National WIC Association, and the BlinkNow Foundation in Surkhet, Nepal. Her graduate research focused on the DC WIC Expansion Act of 2018, comparing the impact of vendor eligibility criteria on participant/vendor ratios across states. Niyeti received her bachelor of arts in human health from Emory University and her master of public health in public health nutrition from George Washington University.

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