Meet Our Team

Meg Burnham, M.S., RDN, CSSD, LDN
mburnham2@niu.edu
815-753-9416

Meg is a registered dietitian/nutritionist (RDN) and licensed in the state of Illinois (LDN). She earned her master's degree in nutrition and dietetics at NIU and has been working in the field of wellness and sports nutrition since 2006. Meg is a board-certified specialist in sports dietetics (CSSD) through the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and a certified intuitive eating counselor.

Meg provides care to NIU students with disordered eating behaviors or other complex medical conditions. She works with Campus Dining Services, coordinating alternate dietary accommodations for students with food allergies, intolerances or other medical diets. Her areas of additional training focus on intuitive eating, disordered eating and sports nutrition.

Meg provides guidance and supervision to the nutrition coaches at NIU Recreation. She has a passion to help clients find joy in food, all while balancing good nutrition with good taste and trains her nutrition coaches to do the same.

Cassidy Neubaum
Graduate Assistant

Cassidy is a graduate student in NIU’s Nutrition and Dietetics program. She graduated from Purdue University in 2023 where she completed her undergraduate degree in nutrition and dietetics with a minor in psychology. Once Cassidy becomes a registered dietitian, she hopes to specialize in eating disorder recovery and open her own private practice. As the nutrition education graduate assistant at NIU Recreation, Cassidy is involved in various aspects of nutrition program management, including development, marketing, and implementation. Overall, Cassidy’s goal is to empower people to cultivate positive relationships with food and improve body image.