PROJECT: Member Team
Shauna Henley is a FCS Senior Extension Agent and Affiliate to the Department of Nutrition. She works in the Northern Maryland Cluster (Baltimore County, Harford County, Carroll County, and Baltimore City), delivering programs that center on nutrition, food safety, and physical activity. Dr. Henley has been involved with teaching food preservation workshops throughout the state, as part of the "Grow It, Eat It" series.
Dr. Henley is actively engaged in food safety education along the food supply chain. At the farm level, Dr. Henley is a FSMA Produce Safety Rule instructor, assists with On-Farm Readiness Reviews and co-teaches Good Agricultural Practices. At the production level, Dr. Henley is a Lead Instructor for FSMA’s Preventive Controls for Human Food 2.0, and works with an interdisciplinary team to educate food entrepreneurs on Cottage Law, and other regulations related to a food business. In addition to these activities, Dr. Henley is a ServSafe and Safe Plates instructor and exam proctor. Her expertise focuses on consumer food-safety education. Her current research interest is improving safe and consistent food handling behaviors from farmers to consumers, by focusing on cues that drive safe food handling behaviors.