Grace Melo is an Accountability, Climate, Equity, and Scholarship (ACES) Faculty Fellow
in the Department of Agricultural Economics. She is interested in policy-oriented research questions involving individual choices and preferences. In the past, she has studied Hispanic preferences for immigration policy attributes and students' preferences for learning assessments in Latin America. Her current research focuses on food security and diet quality of households from underrepresented groups in the US. She has mentored undergraduate and graduate minority students.