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Food Tank’s Academic Peer Working Group

Food Tank’s Academic Working Group brings together academic leaders in food, agriculture, environmental studies, and related fields. This group fosters robust discussions to share best practices, new research, curriculum development, media and other opportunities, peer-to-peer mentoring, events and conference integration, and much, much more. The group also aims to encourage coordination around research, reports, current events, and book releases. 

To request an invitation to join or for more information about Food Tank’s Academic Working Group please email Food Tank Co-founder Bernard Pollack at [email protected]

Abiola Afolayan

Executive Director, Center for Women's Policy and Agricultural Innovation

George Washington University Global Food Institute

Dr. Kelly Alexander

Assistant Professor and George B. Tindall Fellow


University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Elena Carrillo Alvarez

Professor of Public Health Nutrition, Blanquerna School of Health Sciences

Universitat Ramon Llull

Dr. Colin Anderson

Faculty Co-Director, UVM Institute for Agroecology


University of Vermont

Dr. Molly Anderson

Food Studies Professor Emerita; Research Associate Professor


Middlebury College; UVM

Patti Anderson

 MPH, PhD; Faculty Associate, Department of Health Policy and Management

Johns Hopkins

Ravi Anupindi

Professor of Operations Research and Management, Stephen M. Ross School of Business

University of Michigan

Dr. Carlie Arbaugh

Resident Physician, Department of Surgery



Stanford University

Dr. J. Arbuckle

Professor of Rural Sociology



Iowa State University

Allison Arnett, MS, RD

Lecturer and Clinical Coordinator, Graduate Nutrition Program


University of New Haven

Dr. Todd Armstrong

Professor of Russian and Faculty Director, Marcus Family Global Kitchen and Grinnell College Garden

Grinnell College

Dr. Abiodun Atoloye

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Nutrition, Dietetics, and Food Sciences


Utah State University

Mchezaji "Che" Axum

Director, Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education

University of the District of Columbia

Dr. Callie Babbit

Professor, Golisano Institute for Sustainability


Rochester Institute of Technology

Dr. Jinan Banna

Professor, Department of Human Nutrition, Food and Animal Sciences

University of Hawai'i Manoa

Mayada Baydas

Global Partnerships Manager


UC Davis Global Affairs

Ekin Birol

Associate Professor of the Practice of Development, School of Foreign Service

Georgetown University

Dr. Alex Blanchette

Associate Professor, Anthropology


Tufts University

Jack Bobo

Executive Director, Rothman Family Institute for Food Studies

UCLA

Dr. Lori Borchers

Assistant Professor, Harris College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Texas Christian University

Jessica Botta

Full-Time Instructional Faculty, Department of Business and Hospitality



Montgomery College

Eleanor Boyle

Researcher and Author

Nadine Braunstein

Associate Professor and Dietetic Internship Director, Family & Consumer Sciences Department

Sacramento State: California State University 

Cindy Brison

Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Nebraska Extension Educator



University of Nebraska

Dr. Garrett Broad

Associate Professor of Communication; Provosts' Fellow for Sustainability

Rowan University

Graham Browning

Sustainability Manager, Hopkins Dining Services


Johns Hopkins University

Dr. Analena Bruce

Associate Professor, Dept. of Agriculture, Nutrition, and Food Systems

University of New Hampshire

Dr. William Burke

Associate Professor, Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics

Michigan State University

Karen Byrd

Food Waste Research Administrator, Agricultural Economics


Purdue University

Dr. Nikki Byrne-Hoffman

Service Assistant Professor, Co-Director, WVU Campus Food Garden

West Virginia University

Christina Campbell

Associate Professor of Nutrition, Uelner Professor of Food Science and Human Nutrition 

Iowa State University

Shannon Cappellazzi

Assistant Professor of Practice, Soil Health Extension Specialist


Oregon State University

Dr. Christine C. Caruso

Assistant Professor of the Practice; Associate Director of Community Engagement
Bailey College of the Environment

Wesleyan University

Chiméne Castor

Associate Professor of Nutrition





Howard University

Rachel Chadderdon Bair

Director for Sustainable Food Systems





Kalamazoo Valley Community College

Rev. Dr. Christopher Carter

Associate Professor, Assistant Chair, Theology and Religious Studies




University of San Diego

Dr. Christina Ceisel

Associate Professor of Communications



California State University, Fullerton

Dr. Jill Clark

Professor of Public Affairs




Ohio State University

Dr. Jennifer Cognard-Black

Professor of English; Director of Student Fellowships


St. Mary's College of Maryland

Dr. Nevin Cohen

Professor, CUNY School of Public Health and Director, CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute

City University of New York

Dr. Jonathan Crane

Professor and Raymond F. Schinazi Scholar in Bioethics and Jewish Thought



Emory University

Dr. Diane Cress

Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences




Wayne State University

Timothy Crews

Chief Scientist; Director of The Land Institute International Initiative




The Land Institute

Marianne Cufone

Director, Environmental Law Program and Recirculating Farms Coalition; Professor of Practice; and Health-Supportive Chef

Loyola University-New Orleans

Dr. Tim Dalton

Director, Feed the Future Innovation Lab on Sorghum and Millet

Kansas State University

Colette DePhelps

Community Food Systems Area Extension Educator


University of Idaho

Dr. Jonathan Deutsch

Professor and Director, Drexel Food Core Lab


Drexel University

Dr. Brian Dolber

Associate Professor, Communication


California State University, San Marcos

Dr. Zhengxia Dou

Professor, Agricultural Systems



University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Adam Drewnowski

Professor and Director, Center for Public Health Nutrition


University of Washington

Dr. Christina Economos

Dean and Professor, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy

Tufts University

Dr. Sophie Egan

Director, Stanford Food Institute & Sustainable Food Systems


Stanford University

David Eisenberg

Founding Executive Director, Teaching Kitchen Collaborative

Harvard University

Dr. Nate Ela

Assistant Professor of Law and Faculty Affiliate in Sociology

Temple University

Dr. Theodore Endreny

Professor of Water Resource Engineering; Developer i-Tree Tools

SUNY ESF

Dr. Michael Fakhri

Professor, Law and UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food

University of Oregon

Dr. Jessica Fanzo

Professor of Food Policy and Climate


Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies

Cindy Farlee

Grantee Relations Manager


Intertribal Agriculture Council

Mackenzie Feldman

Founder and Co-Director



Re:wild Your Campus

Priya Fielding-Singh

Director of Policy and Programs, Global Food Institute

The George Washington University

Kathryn Fisher

Assistant Program Director and Senior Lecturer, Global Security Studies and Intelligence Analysis

Johns Hopkins University

Dr. Kevin M. Fitzpatrick

Professor and Jones Chair in Community




University of Arkansas-Fayetteville

Eliza Fournier

Urban Farm Director, Community and Workforce Partnerships



College of Lake County

Andrea Freeman

Second Century Chair Professor of Law




Southwestern Law School

Dr. Beth Frates

Associate Professor, Departments of Environmental Health and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Harvard University Medical School

Dr. Jennifer Gaddis

Associate Professor, Civil and Community Studies




University of Wisconsin-Madison

Dr. Jessica Gephart

Assistant Professor, Environmental Science




American University

Dr. Jess Gerrior

Lecturer, Department of Agriculture, Nutrition, and Food Systems



University of New Hampshire

Dr. Sean Gillon

Associate Professor of Food Systems & Society


Oregon Health & Science University

Dr. Sonya Grier

Professor of Marketing, Kogod School of Business


American University

Dr. Wendy Godek

Assistant Professor of Politics and International Relations

Roger Williams University

Dr. Palak Gupta

Assistant Professor of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Sciences

Utah State University

Dr. Megan Govindan

Research Scientist, Institute for Community and Rural Health; Director, Nourish West Virginia

West Virginia University

Caitlin Grady

Associate Professor and Director of Research, Engineering Management and Systems Engineering

The George Washington University

Noel Gurwick

Research Scientist, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center


University of Maryland

Dr. Brooke Hansen

Associate Professor; Director of Sustainable Tourism


University of South Florida

Dr. Cassandra Hawkins

Director of the McNair HBCU Scholars Program




Jackson State University

Dr. Spencer Henson

Professor, Department of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics



University of Guelph

Dr. Michael Hoffman

Professor Emeritus, Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future



Cornell University

Sara Hoverter

Director, Center for Community Health Innovation, O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law

Georgetown Law

Sarah Patiño Hulick

Faculty and Department Chair, Horticulture and Agriculture Technology Department

Cabrillo College

Dr. Diane Husic

Richard ’64 and Gail Stradling Executive Director of the Center for the Environment

St. Lawrence University

Dr. Jerri Husch

Coordinator, Delaware Extension Climate Change Coordination Initiative


University of Delaware

Dr. Lisbeth Inglesias-Rios

Epidemiologist, Department of Epidemiology


University of Michigan

Dr. Becca Jablonski

Co-Director, Food Systems Institute


Colorado State University

Dr. Kimberly Jackson

Director of Food Studies Program; Chair, Chemistry Department

Spellman College

Benjamin Jewell

Educator, Nebraska Regional Food Systems Initiative

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Dr. Rebecca Kanter

Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition


University of Chile

Dr. Deniz Karakoc

Assistant Professor, School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence


Arizona State University

Yuki Kato

Associate Professor of Sociology



Georgetown University

Dr. Tamiko Katsumoto

Clinical Associate Professor



Stanford University

Lia Kelinsky-Jones

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural, Leadership, and Community Education

Virginia Tech

Dr. Muhammad Khalifa

Post-Doctoral Associate, Geoscientist

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sarah Kiel

Menu Architecture Manager

Yale University

Dr. Dawn King

Senior Lecturer in Environment and Society

Brown University

Dr. Ken Kolb

Professor, Chair of Sociology

Furman University

Dr. Joan Kopperud

Professor Emeritus, English


Concordia College

Dr. Kiruba Krishnaswamy

Assistant Professor, Sustainable Food Systems Engineering

University of Missouri

Lisa Lachenmayr

Faculty Specialist, Family and Consumer Sciences


University of Maryland Extension

Dr. Juan Andrade Laborde

Associate Professor, Global Food & Nutrition


University of Florida

Dr. Alexa Lamm

Professor, Science Communication, Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communication

University of Georgia

Dr. Stephanie Lansing

Professor, Department of Environmental Science and Technology




University of Maryland

Emily Broad Leib

Professor; Founding Director, Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic; Director, Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation


Harvard University

Robyn Linde

Professor of Political Science





Rhode Island College

Dr. Justine Lindemann

Assistant Professor, Community Development and Resilience


Penn State University

Ashley Longacre

Epidemiologist and Assistant Professor, Connell School of Nursing


Boston College

Dr. Karina Lora

Associate Professor, Department of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences


George Washington University

John Lowrey

Assistant Professor, Supply Chain & Information Management and Health Sciences

Northeastern University

Dr. Melina Macall

Adjunct Professor, Liberal Studies


William Paterson University

Dr. Karen Magid

Director of Scientific and Government Relations


Morton Arboretum

Dr. Michael E. Mann

Presidential Distinguished Professor, Earth and Environmental Science

University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Lisa Markowitz

Professor of Anthropology



University of Louisville

Dr. Teresa Mares

Associate Professor; Director for Graduate Program in Food Systems

University of Vermont

Dr. William Masters

Professor, Friedman School of Nutrition


Tufts University

Odemari Mbuya

Professor and Director, Center for Water Resources

Florida A&M University

Sid Mehta

Adjunct Faculty, Land and Food Systems


The University of British Columbia

V. Ernesto Méndez

Co-Director and Professor, Institute for Agroecology (IFA)




University of Vermont

Dr. Kathleen Merrigan

Executive Director, Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems




Arizona State University

Dr. Albie Miles

Associate Professor of Sustainable Community Food Systems; Co-Director of the Ke Ō Mau Center for Sustainable Island Food Systems

University of Hawai’i, West O’ahu; University of Hawai’i System

Michelle Miller

Researcher, Center for Integrated Agriculture Systems




University of Wisconsin Madison

Dave Montgomery

Professor, College of the Environment


University of Washington

Kyle Murray

Community Nutrition Program Lead


New York-Presbyterian Hospital

Roni Neff

Associate Professor, Environmental Health & Engineering

Johns Hopkins University

Dr. Marion Nestle

Paulette Goddard Prof. of Nutrition, Food Studies & Public Health, Emerita

New York University

Dr. David Ortega

Professor, and Noel W. Stuckman Chair in Food Economics & Policy


Michigan State University

Dr. Jennifer Otten

Professor and Undergraduate Program Director, Food Systems, Nutrition, and Health

University of Washington School of Public Health

Armand Paradis, MS

Advisory Board, Department of Food Science


University of Massachusetts

Dr. Raj Patel

Research Professor, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs


University of Texas, Austin

Dr. Stephanie Patterson

Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics


Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Dr. Heather Paxson

William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor and Head of Anthropology

MIT

Dr. Bryce Perler

Assistant Professor of Medicine and Gastroenterologist

Brown University

Mary Pietrusko

Senior Administrative Associate, J-PAL


MIT

Christine Porter

Professor/Project Director, Food Dignity



University of Wyoming

Dr. Natalie Poulos

Associate Professor of Nutritional Sciences, Director of the Food Security Lab

University of Texas at Austin

Silvina Pueyrredon

Food Safety Professor; Partner



Universidad Católica Argentina; QAGRO Consultores

Hari Pulapaka

Founder & CEO; Senior Culinary Director



Global Cooking School; 4Roots Farm

Mary Purdy, MS, RDN

Adjunct Faculty




Culinary Institute of America

Dr. Alex Racelis

Associate Professor, Agroecology and Resilient Food Systems


University of Texas Rio Grande Valley 

Dr. Belinda Ramírez

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Global Public Health Program

Binghamton University

Dr. Ashanté Reese

Associate Professor, Department of African and African Diaspora Studies


The University of Texas at Austin

Stephen Ritz

Senior Fellow in Social Innovation



Babson College

Michael Roberts

Executive Director, Resnick Center for Food Law and Policy


UCLA

Dr. Brian Roe

Professor, Agricultural and Environmental Economics



Ohio State University

Dr. Bea Rogers

Professor of Economics and Food Policy, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy

Tufts University

Dr. Howard Rosing

Executive Director, Steans Center for Community-Based Service Learning


DePaul University 

Michelle Samuel-Foo

Chief of Staff




National Institute of Food and Agriculture

Dr. Barbara Sattler

Professor Emeritus, School of Nursing and Health Professionals


University of San Francisco

Dr. Michelle Schroeder-Moreno

Professor of Agroecology, Dept. of Crop & Soil Sciences

North Carolina State University

Dr. Pamela Schwartz

Executive Director, Community Health

Kaiser Permanente, San Francisco

Dr. Andi Sciacca

Founder, Board Chair


FEAST Institute; Wisconsin Harvest Network

Linda Shiue

Director of Culinary and Lifestyle Medicine

Kaiser Permanente San Francisco

Dr. Sauleh Siddiqui

Professor, Department of Environmental Science

American University of Washington D.C. 

Dr. Joanne Slavin

Professor, Food Science and Nutrition




University of Minnesota 

Stacey Snelling

Professor, Department of Health Studies




American University

Susan Solomon

Professor of Environmental Studies and Chemistry, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences

MIT

Tammara Soma

Associate Professor, School of Resource and Environmental Management (Planning)
s

Simon Fraser University

Dr. Hee-Jung Song

Associate Professor, Nutrition and Food Science


University of Maryland 

Katie Stebbins

Executive Director, Tufts Food & Nutrition Institute



Tufts University

Jasia Steinmetz

Professor, Nutritional Sciences, School of Health Promotion and Human Development

UW-Stevens Point

Patrick Stover

Professor of Biomedical Sciences & Director of ICON-Health


Florida State University

Dr. Esra Tanyildiz

Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Public Management and Policy


Georgia State University

Dawn Thilmany

Professor and Co-Director, Agriculture and Resource Economics



Colorado State University

Dr. Jennifer Jo Thompson

Associate Research Scientist, Social Sustainability of Agriculture and Food Systems

University of Georgia

Dr. Roxana Maria Triboi

Food Policy and Planning Researcher




LE:NOTRE Institute

Dr. Beth C. Weitzman

Prof., Steinhardt School of Culture, Education & Human Development

New York University

Dr. Daniel Wells

Associate Professor, Department of Horticulture

Auburn University

Dr. Harry G. West

Professor; Co-Director, Centre for Rural Policy Research

University of Exeter

Qisi Yao

PhD Candidate, Department of Nutrition


University of Rhode Island

Dr. Ellen Yee

Professor of Law and the Director of International Programs

Drake University

Brenda Young

Professor; Chair, Global & Local Sustainability


Daemen University

Dr. Anna Zeide

Professor of History, Director of the Food Studies Program

Virginia Tech 

Rachel Zemser

Food Scientist



San Francisco State University