Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
She resigned from this position on March 14, 2013. Merrigan helped develop United States Department of Agriculture"s organic labeling rules while head of the Agricultural Marketing Service from 1999 to 2001. Between her United States Department of Agriculture positions, she worked at Tufts University as Director of the Agriculture, Food and Environment Program at the Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy.
She has a Doctor of Philosophy in environmental planning from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.