This document is a resume for Melanie Shaffer-Cutillo seeking a position working with families to improve health through community outreach programs. She has extensive experience in food security, public health, nutrition education and working with diverse populations. Her education includes degrees in history, global and women's studies, and a master's degree in child and family health. She has worked on programs in the US, Zambia, Ecuador and India assessing community health needs and developing culturally appropriate interventions.

1. Melanie Shaffer-Cutillo
340 Dry Bridge Road, Mexico, New York 13114 mmshaffe@syr.edu (315) 298-4692
OBJECTIVE
Seeking opportunity to work with diverse families in Central New York improving family health status
through community outreach, food security and nutritional education programs.
SKILLS
• Experience within food security, child and family health, and community resource development
• Advanced skills in public speaking, educational outreach, and working with diverse populations.
• Research and program development in community nutrition and health.
• Public health and community services program design, implementation, and evaluation.
• Computer and social media skills include data entry and analysis, Adobe, PowerPoint and Excel.
• Languages: Spanish and Hindi.
EDUCATION
Syracuse University Syracuse, New York 2016
Child and Family Health, (MS)
South Asian Studies (CAS)
Brown University and SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry 2013
Certificate of Ethics, Culture, and Environmental Community-based Research
Binghamton University Binghamton, NY 2009-2011
Global History (MA) Minor Community Development
Oswego State University of New York Oswego, New York 2007- 2009
History; Global and International Studies (BA), Women’s Studies (Minor)
Cayuga Community College 2004-2006
AA Sociology Concentration
EXPERIENCE
2015 Owner, Black Creek Café & Treasures; Mexico, NY.
• Designed vegetarian food and coffee service menus based on local resources in Oswego County
• Created partnerships with organic farms to raise awareness and access to local food resources
• Accounting, menu budgets, and pricing
• Media advertising and outreach
• Private cooking classes for low-income families
2014 Representative, FIAN International United Nations CSW58, Women and Food Security
• Conducted primary research on women’s access to health resources on family and community health.
• FIAN Representative in workshop and panel discussions
• Documented evidence and analysis of panel discussions.
• Presented evidence-based research to Rural Women’s Action Network
2013- 2014 Program Specialist, UNICEF/AKROS Childhood Diarrheal Management, Nutrition,
Rural Resources and Family Relations in Zambia
• Conducted primary research on sociological and behavioral health indicators
• Created research documents and questionnaires to be used in the field by community health workers
• Developed gender-based research and program model for implementation and evaluation
• Documented the role of gender relations and inequality upon children’s health status.

2. 2012 Consultant; Semillia Ambiental Foundaćion, San Francisco de Sisgipampa Women and Community
Health Needs Assessment: A 5 Village Study
• Researched maternal and child health in five rural villages, total population of 1,546 persons
• Interviewed village residents, medical practitioners, governmental representatives
• Developed, implemented, and evaluated health assessments with local residents and health workers
• Interviewed village residents, medical practitioners, governmental representatives
• Conducted informal and formal workshops and group interviews
2011- 2012 Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant, Department of of Public Health, Food Studies &
Nutrition, Syracuse University.
• Public health data collection and analysis.
• Teaching assistant: curriculum, grading, lectures, tutoring students, and class discussion sections
• Community educational presentations on public health issues.
2009-2011 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of History, Binghamton University
• Teaching Assistant: curriculum, grading, lectures, tutoring students, and class discussion sections
2008 AmeriCorps, Youth Educator and Program Director, Oswego County Historical Society
• Developed and Lead Youth Summer Educational Programs
• Coordinated off-site youth projects
• Designed unique museum tour specifically for children.
RELATED GRADUATE COURSEWORK
NSD 627 Pubic Health and Nutrition
NSD 600 Food Insecurity, Nutrition, and Family Health
HTW 702 Child and Family Health Programs and Policy
HTW 664 Social and Behavioral Determinates of Family Health
CFS 653 Child and Family Development across the Life Cycle
HTW 669 Food, Disability and Health
FSD 702 Food Rights and Community Development
HTW 779 Implementation and Evaluation of Child and Family Health Programs
SAS 700 Public Health in South Asia
HTW 700 Food Insecurity, Water Rights and Child Health
HTW 668: Applied Epidemiology in Child & Family Health
HTW 779 Implementation, Evaluation of Child & Family Health Programs
PROFESSIONAL RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS
Cutillo, M and Glidden,L. “At the Margins Edge: Women’s Activism in Ecuador” Women's Studies An
Interdisciplinary Journal: June 2016.
“Calories, Costs, and Consequences: Measuring the Effects of Women’s Participation in Local Water Supply
Resource Management on Family Health” International Conference on Water and Health, Chapel Hill,
North Carolina. October 2012
“Development at Their Doorsteps’: The Convergent Histories of Women, Health, Community Development and
Water in India, 1950-1990” Women’s Worlds International Congress 2011, Ottawa-Gatineau, Canada.
“Global Feminisms in Historical Perspectives: India, China, Poland and the U.S.” Berkshire Conference on
the History of Women, Oswego State University. June, 2011.
At the Margins Edge: Indigenous and Afroecuadorian Women’s Activism in Ecuador” International Studies
Association, New York, New York. February 2009.