PhD Student
Texas Tech University
Andrea Sosa-Holwerda has a Master's degree in Food Technology from Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, a Postgraduate in Food Safety from Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, and a Bachelor's degree in Agricultural Science and Production from Zamorano University. Currently she is a PhD student in Nutritional Sciences and Graduate Part Time Instructor at Texas Tech University. She is also the Vice President of the Graduate Nutrition Organization at TTU. Her research is focused on sorghum and its health benefits in community nutrition and prediabetes and diabetes prevention. Her main interests are nutrition education, nutrition intervention, prediabetes, and diabetes prevention.
She worked for the Agricultural Food Research Center at Universidad del Valle de Guatemala for the R&D department in charge of the development of new products using cardamom as the main ingredient to potentiate its usage within the country. She was a visiting scholar at The Ohio State University at the Ohio Research and Development Center where she conducted interviews in Bolivia in collaboration with other team members to develop small farmers' mental models in order to enhance agricultural practices.
She is a full member of the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD) and has worked in the subdivision of nutrition and mentorship of Guatemala's chapter. She recently joined the Science Club aiming to make changes and promote science, leadership and stability among girls, young ,and adult women in the scientific world.
She has volunteered as a translator/interpreter since 2005 for medical teams serving communities