Heidi LeBlanc, M.S.

Field: Nutrition, Dietetics, and Food Sciences
Areas of Focus: Food Security

Expertise

• Food security
• Hunger Solutions
• Create Better Health (SNAP-Ed)
• SNAP-Ed
• Complementary programming
• Farmers Feeding Utah

Bio

Extension Professor Heidi LeBlanc is the director of both the Create Better Health (CBH) and Hunger Solutions Institute (HSI) programs at Utah State University. Her primary goal is to increase food security and improve the lives of Utahns through a healthy diet and physical activity. Heidi oversees the Utah SNAP-Ed grant plan and contract with the Department of Workforce Services (DWS) and USDA's Food and Nutrition Service Program.

Heidi loves the Farmers Feeding Utah program; it is a statewide Policy, Systems, and Environment effort helping provide healthy food access to families throughout Utah. She has a passion for the entire Create Better Health (SNAP-Ed) program and loves to watch the CBH Ambassadors and counties succeed!