Dina’s research and teaching focus is in nutrition, foodsystems and Indigenous Peoples. She was Project Coordinator of the “Indigenous Peoples’ Food Systems for Health” program at the Centre for Indigenous Peoples’ Nutrition and Environment (CINE) at McGill University. She co-edited two books that described project results and were published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (see here and here).

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Dina taught in the Department of Human Nutrition at St. Francis Xavier University, where she continued to focus on themes of food / climate justice and foodsystems. Her degrees include Bachelor of Nutritional Sciences (Dietetics) and Master of Nutritional Sciences.