Angela Tagtow, MS, RD, LD
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Founder & Chief Strategist, Äkta Strategies, LLC
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Angie Tagtow is the Founder and Chief Strategist of Äkta Strategies, a consulting firm that designs authentic solutions for systems change. She has 30-years of experience working at local, state, federal, and international levels in agriculture, food and nutrition policy, public health, and food and water systems.
In 2014, she was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as the Executive Director for the USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion in which she co-led the development and launch of the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
Angie is a registered dietitian and has served as a 2020 National Leadership Academy for the Public’s Health Fellow; Senior Fellow and Endowed Chair at the Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, University of Minnesota College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences; and as a Food and Society Policy Fellow with the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. She was the founder and CEO of a successful consulting firm that provided program and policy development, strategic planning, capacity building, communication, and professional development services to diverse clients that worked toward advancing sustainable, resilient, and healthy food and water systems. She co-founded a non-profit focused on health and food systems in addition to forming a statewide community of practice that promoted evidence-based strategies to increase access to healthful food. Angie has worked with the Iowa Department of Public Health for more than 15 years in various capacities including WIC Nutrition Consultant, Strategic Planning Consultant, Food Systems Consultant, and as a subject matter expert on policy, systems, and environmental approaches to nutrition and health promotion initiatives.
Angie has served in professional leadership positions within the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Iowa Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior, Association of State Public Health Nutritionists, and the American Public Health Association. In addition to launching the Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition in 2005 in which she served as the managing editor for 11 years, she has published numerous peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and reports. Angie has been honored by many organizations for her leadership and professional contributions to nutrition, public health, and food systems.
Angie is currently a doctoral student at the University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health, Public Health Leadership Program. She is a graduate of the University of Northern Iowa and Iowa State University and resides on a reconstructed tallgrass prairie in central Iowa.
Selected Publications
Tagtow A, Herman D, Cunningham-Sabo L. Next-Generation Solutions to Address Adaptive Challenges in Dietetics Practice: The I+PSE Conceptual Framework for Action. J Acad Nutr Diet. 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jand.2021.01.018. Open Access. https://jandonline.org/article/S2212-2672(21)00065-4/fulltext