Faces of Root Causes
General Root causes

Julian Xie (Root Causes Advisor)
Duke Medicine '21

Tamar Chukran (Root Causes Advisor)
Duke Medicine '22

Willis Wong (Co-President)
Duke Medicine '23/Fuqua '22

Emily Peairs (Co-President)
Duke Medicine '24

Christine Chow (Treasurer and Grants Co-Manager)
Duke Medicine '22

Nidhila Masha (Treasurer and Grants Advisor)
Duke Medicine '23

Ahmed Hussain (Vice Treasurer)
Duke Undergraduate '21

Will Pohlman (Education and Outreach Chair)
Duke Medicine '22

Isabel Lu (Education and Outreach Chair)
UNC RD/MPH '22

Michaela LaRose (Advocacy and Policy Co-Chair (outgoing))
Duke Medicine '21

Michael Rosamilia (Curriculum Advocate)
Duke Medicine '22

Virginie Marchand (Advocacy and Policy Co-Chair)
Duke Medicine '24

Angela Renne (Advocacy and Policy Co-Chair)
Duke Undergraduate '21

Abijah Gattis (Director of Communications)

Ameera Khattab (Director of Communications)

Kristy Lieu (Social Media Chair)
Duke Undergraduate '22

Toby Chen (Social Media Chair)
Duke Undergraduate '22
Fresh produce Program

Melissa Greene (FPP Patient Communications Co-Coordinator)
Duke MBS

Allison Chu (FPP Patient Communications Co-Coordinator)
Duke MBS

Jason Lee (FPP Program Manager)
Duke Undergraduate 20'

Tiff Wei (Distribution Day Co-Manager)
Duke B.S.E. in EnvE '20/APO

Kristy Lieu (Distribution Day Co-Manager)
Duke Undergraduate '22

Scott Brummel (VP of Operations)
Duke Bioethics/Science Policy '18

Lily Wherry (Community Partnerships Officer)
MBA/Masters of Environmental Management (Fuqua and Nic school)

Natalie Wickenheisser (Research Advisor)
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Risa Gearhart-Serna (Research Co-Coordinator)
Duke PhD in Pathology/Integrated Toxicology and Environmental Health Program (School of Medicine/School of the Environment)

Michelle Metzler (Research Volunteer Coordination Advisor)
Duke PA Program (2nd year)

Alessandro Racioppi (Research Volunteer Co-Coordinator)

Hannah Wessler (Research Volunteer Co-Coordinator)

Emmanuela (Emma) Bonglack (Research Co-Coordinator)
Pharmacology PhD candidate in SoM

Kaylee Hildebrandt (Volunteer Co-Coordinator)

Nathan Heffernan (Volunteer Co-Coordinator)
Duke Undergraduate '21

Rishabh Jain (Education Coordinator)

Catarina Martinez (Education Support)
NSOE MEM '21

Sunny Liu (Referring Provider Liason + NCCARE360 Coordinator)
Duke Medicine '24

Margot Kelly-Hedrick (Referring Provider Liason + NCCARE360 Coordinator)
Duke Undergraduate '23

Kara Wall (FPP Subcomittee)
Duke Undergraduate '23
Project feed
Bass connections
healthy harvest

Joshua Hayden (HH Change Center Advisor)
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Karen Lin (HH Sprout Kits Advisor)
Duke Medicine ’21

Florence Zhao (HH Community Gardening Leader Sprout Kits)
Duke Undergraduate '22

Maggie Min (HH Community Gardening Leader Change Center)
Duke Med '24

Jamie Lebhar (HH Program Manager and FPP Liason)
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Paula Gonzalez (Healthy Harvest Helper)
Exercise as medicine
wellnest

Kayla Blackburn (WellNest Program Manager)

Nicky Chung (WellNest Program Manager)

Nicole Schindler (WellNest Supply Coordinator)

Kaia Miller (WellNest Research Coordinator)
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Willis Wong (WellNest Research Coordinator)

Madeline Brown (WellNest Curriculum Leader)
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Tamar Chukrun (WellNest Advisor)

Kira Niederhoffer (WellNest Advisor)
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