Kenya Moon is a Retail Food Specialist with FDA’s Office of State Cooperative Programs based out of Falls Church, VA. She is responsible for assisting retail food safety and food defense programs of regulatory health agencies in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia. She currently shares as Co-Chair on the FDA National Retail Food Team Industry Outreach Workgroup. A unique part of Kenya’s career has been her involvement with National Special Security Events and working with various jurisdictions such as the U.S. Secret Service. Most recently she has helped coordinate and perform food safety and food defense inspections for the 2016 Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, DC; the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, OH; and the 2017 Presidential Inauguration. Prior to joining FDA, Kenya was the training supervisor at Cobb & Douglas Public Health in Marietta, GA and later was a quality assurance specialist for a third party auditing agency. She is a graduate of Auburn University with a bachelor’s in biomedical science and a huge college football fan!