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Melissa Watkins
Role: Project Director
Melissa joins Food From Thought on secondment from the Office of the Vice-President Research (Agri-Food Partnership) where she managed the research funding programs of the Ontario Agri-food Innovation Alliance (U of G’s partnership with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs) since 2015. Melissa holds a BSc, Environmental Sciences and an MSc, Land Resource Science from the University of Guelph.