Jessica LaMontagne

I have lived in Dover for twelve years. I am semi-retired and still self-employed in the construction industry as a tile installer and manager of custom kitchen and bath remodels. With my husband, I also manage rental property and help care for my elderly mother. Before working in residential construction, I was a public health nutritionist for 20 years in community health centers primarily with the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) nutrition program. I have always had a great passion for food and nutrition, spending my young adulthood cooking in restaurants and a homeless shelter in Boston. I earned my B. A. at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, majoring in Economics, and a M.S. at the University of California, Davis, in Nutrition and International Agricultural Development. In graduate school, I spent almost a year working on nutrition research in Nicaragua.