Nanna Meyer
University of Colorado, UCCS Associate Professor of Human Physiology and Nutrition

Nanna Meyer is associate professor in human physiology and nutrition at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. Meyer founded the UCCS Sport Nutrition Graduate Program and developed the trademarked Athlete’s Plate. She has worked in Olympic sport nutrition for 20 years, supporting U.S. athletes at five Olympic games, while helping to found professional sport nutrition organizations nationally and internationally. As the world’s urgency to address climate change and health rises, Meyer is focused on sustainable food systems in the Rocky Mountain region. In 2014, she was instrumental in helping UCCS transition its food system away from a corporate system to self-operation. With a team of graduate students, she links farmers to engaged eaters using local food and farm literacy concepts of UCCS’s Sustainability, Wellness and Learning (SWELL) initiative, and through programs and projects, including UCCS Grain School, that focus on food systems renewal through solutions that benefit people, the planet and farmers. Meyer is reducing her university time in the next academic year to devote time to a newly launched farm and food business (Pueblo Seed & Food Co.) with her husband, Dan Hobbs.