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Camila grew up in the largest milk producer state of Brazil. She graduated as a Veterinarian from the Federal University of Minas Gerais - Brazil, where she led an extension program to improve milk quality and reduce mastitis in dairy herds. She then earned an M.S. and Ph.D. in Animal Science for the same institution, focused on calf nutrition and management. Camila spent 2 years of her Ph.D. program at Penn State as a visiting scholar, working with Dairy Nutrition, especially related to protein nutrition. Camila also worked as a Postdoc at the University of California – Davis, where she worked with economic opportunities of implementing automatic milking technologies in dairy farms. Currently, Camila is the regional Dairy Management Specialist with Cornell Cooperative Extension’s SWNY Dairy, Livestock & Field Crops Team. Camila will be working on programming related to herd health and management, calf and heifer rearing, milk quality, nutrition, and improving efficiency and environmental sustainability of dairies while working to identify the needs of the region.