Jessica Levy
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Jessica Levy is General Counsel and Senior Research Fellow at Food Tank. She graduated from Cornell University with a BS in Food Science, with a focus on Food Choices and Issues in Society, and a minor in Business. Jessica holds a JD from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and an LLM in Taxation from New York University. Her legal expertise centers on tax-exempt organizations, and she has provided counsel to nonprofits across a variety of sectors and issue areas on legal, governance, and regulatory matters. Jessica is passionate about storytelling as a means of furthering food system innovation. She enjoys visiting local farms and spending time in Brooklyn’s parks with her dog.

Food Tank Explains: Food Justice

This primer on food justice explains how equitable food systems support food equity, worker rights, and self-determination.

Food Tank Explains: Blue Foods

Food Tank’s guide to blue foods explores fisheries, aquaculture, seafood, seaweed, nutrition, food security, and sustainable aquatic food systems.

How One Los Angeles Program Helps Urban Farmers Thrive

LAFPC’s Cultivating Farmers program supports urban farmers in overcoming barriers to land access, business development, and long-term success.

Food Tank Explains: Organic Agriculture

From healthier soils to stronger ecosystems, here’s how organic farming works and why interest in it continues to grow.

Food Tank Explains: Food Loss and Waste

Food loss and waste occur at different stages of the food supply chain, impacting food security, emissions, and natural resource use worldwide.

Food Tank Explains: Functional Foods

Functional foods may support health beyond basic nutrition, but questions remain about how they should be defined, regulated, and evaluated.

Food Tank Explains: El Niño

Changing Pacific Ocean temperatures during El Niño can trigger droughts, floods, and widespread impacts on food systems and marine ecosystems.

Food Tank Explains: Integrated Pest Management

Integrated Pest Management helps farmers manage pests through biological, cultural, physical, and chemical controls.

Food Tank Explains: Seed Saving

From ancient farming traditions to modern seed sovereignty movements, seed saving continues to shape food systems worldwide.

Food Tank Explains: CRISPR

How can gene-editing technology help us shape the future of our food and agriculture systems? Learn more in Food Tank’s latest primer.

FoodCorps and Teachers College Launch Food Education Microcredential

FoodCorps and Teachers College launch Food Education in the Classroom (Food-E), a microcredential that helps educators integrate nutrition science and experiential learning into K-5 classrooms.

Food Tank Explains: Agroforestry

Agroforestry integrates trees, crops, and livestock into interconnected systems that can benefit farmers, communities, and ecosystems.

Report Explores How Food Is Medicine Stakeholders Can Build Lasting Partnerships

A new report from the Milken Institute offers practical tools to help Food Is Medicine stakeholders build stronger and more sustainable partnerships.

Food Tank Explains: Food Traceability

As food supply chains grow increasingly globalized and complex, traceability systems help connect products to their origins. This primer explains how the systems improve transparency, safety, and supply chain accountability.

Honoring Carlo Petrini

Carlo Petrini was “a visionary leader and public intellectual with a profound commitment to the common good, human relationships, and the natural world,” says Slow Food.

Food Tank Explains: The Farm Bill

From conservation funding to nutrition assistance, the Farm Bill affects farmers, consumers, and food systems nationwide.

Food Tank Explains: Precision Agriculture

Precision agriculture is an approach to farming that uses technology to collect and synthesize data. This primer outlines common precision tools, how they’re used, and how they’re impacting efficiency and sustainability.

Food Tank Explains: True Cost Accounting

True Cost Accounting reveals the hidden costs of food systems—and how they shape health, environment, and equity.

Food Tank Explains: Carbon Farming

Carbon farming captures carbon in soil while helping farmers build healthier, more resilient land.

Can New Deere Jobs and Facilities Offset Years of Layoffs?

New jobs offer hope, but John Deere’s layoffs still weigh heavily on workers and communities.