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Nutrition at USAID

Teresa Welsh is a Reporter with Devex based in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining Devex, Teresa wrote about Latin America from McClatchy's Washington Bureau and covered foreign affairs for U.S. News and World Report. She worked as a reporter in Colombia, where she previously lived teaching English. Teresa earned bachelor of arts degrees in journalism and Latin American studies from the University of Wisconsin.

Sally Abbott is the Acting Nutrition Division Chief of the Bureau for Food Security at USAID. She has previously worked with the Feinstein International Center, the United Nations Children's Fund, and the Peace Corps. Sally received her PhD in Food Policy and Humanitarian Assistance from Tufts University.

Speaker bio.

Leslie Koo is a Senior Nutrition Advisor and the Nutrition Team Lead in the U.S. Agency for International Development's Bureau for Global Health. Her role includes providing broad expertise in public health nutrition within maternal and child health programs as well as in multi-sectoral nutrition programs. Prior to joining USAID, Leslie managed and advised nutrition programs in both emergency and development settings. She has worked with Save the Children, Concern Worldwide and UNICEF in Myanmar, Niger, and in Haiti, where she also served as a Peace Corps volunteer. Leslie completed her M.S. in Food Policy and Applied Nutrition at Tufts University and her B.A. in Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. She is fluent in French, Italian and Haitian Creole.

Paul Burford has worked as a Contracting and Agreement Officer at USAID since 2009.  He has worked on programs supporting Latin America and the Caribbean, Global Health, and has been a Supervisory Contracting and Agreement Officer supporting the Bureau for Food Security since 2014.  He is originally from Virginia Beach, VA and graduated from Longwood University with a degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Economics.