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Kimberly Gardner is a nutritional sciences student with a concentration in dietetics and a minor in chemistry from Jersey City, New Jersey, by way of Porus, Jamaica. Gardner possesses a deep passion for serving children, adolescents and the community. Her goal is to pursue a Ph.D. in community nutrition. Ultimately, she aspires to end food insecurity and childhood obesity/malnutrition throughout food deserts in the New York and New Jersey; Washington, D.C.; and Jamaica by promoting culturally competent nutrition education, dietetic counseling and advocacy. Currently, she focuses on helping adolescents and adults overcome emotional eating and eating disorders and she also teaches children how to eat the rainbow through the Rainbow Palate Project, a 3-class series that she created. Her short-term goal is work for the World Health Organization in Geneva.