Writer: Paul Schattenberg, 210-859-5752, [email protected]

Contact: Lani Williams, 972-952-9215, [email protected]

Renda Nelson, 806-677-5600, [email protected]   

DALLAS — Lani Williams has joined the Better Living for Texans state office team as the BLT regional program manager for the 44-county East Region of the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service.

Williams, based at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center, 17360 Coit Road in Dallas, started her new position March 15.

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Lani Williams has joined the state office team for the Better Living for Texans program.  Williams  is the regional program manager for the 44-county East Region and is based at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center in Dallas. (Texas A&M AgriLife photo)

The BLT program is a collaboration of AgriLife Extension, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission and U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service. The program, which began in 1994, serves limited-income families throughout Texas at no cost to participants. Its goal is to provide educational programs that help Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program participants make healthy food choices.

Williams was previously with the Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service, where she served as the family and consumer sciences program specialist for that agency’s Southeast District. Before that, she worked with Oklahoma’s Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program.

“We are excited Lani has joined the state office team and know she will be a great asset to the program,” said supervisor Renda Nelson, BLT state program director, Amarillo. “From her experience as a district program specialist for the Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service and work as a coordinator with Oklahoma’s EFNEP program, she knows what a positive impact this program has on our audience. Her passion to serve our county agents and BLT assistants to deliver effective programs is already evident.”

Williams has a bachelor’s degree in vocational home economics and a master’s degree in human resources administration from East Central University.

“I feel blessed that an opportunity came up in food and nutrition, and that I have the ability to work with the BLT program,” Williams said. “It’s a great program and I think we have outstanding resources to share with our audience. I’m looking forward to meeting the AgriLife Extension agents and BLT assistants throughout the East Region.”

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