Adele Hite
PhD candidate, MPH, RD
Adele Hite is a PhD student in communication, rhetoric, and digital media at North Carolina State University, as well as a registered dietitian. She has master’s degrees in English and in nutrition and has pursued graduate studies in nutrition epidemiology. She is policy chair and co-founder of Healthy Nation Coalition, a non-profit health advocacy organization dedicated to making essential nutrition the priority for dietary health. Her current work centers on a critical examination of the concept of “healthy food,” and encompasses the rhetoric of food politics, nutrition science, and public health. She blogs at eathropology.com.