Lindy Olive is a research project coordinator at Northwestern University. She manages projects related to how women spend their time in a day (the 24-hour cycle) and outcomes for cardiovascular health. While at Auburn, she focused on local food systems, meal kits for low-income families, and women’s unpaid labor. She aims to make health research more participatory at every stage and hopes to begin a PhD program in the near future. Lindy received a bachelors in nutrition (2016) and masters in rural sociology (2018) from Auburn University, and she now lives in Chicago.
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