Taylor LaFave (he/him/his) is the Chief of Food Policy and Planning and Food Policy Director for the City of Baltimore. He leads a collaborative team that works to build an equitable and resilient urban food system by addressing health, economic, and environmental disparities in neighborhoods that have high levels of food insecurity. During the COVID-19 […]
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Becca is a farmer, educator, and food access advocate with experience in farm management and youth education. As the Director of Children’s Farms in Action, Becca Harley manages the growing and educational programs at the Montbello Urban Farm, which provides fresh produce for the community. She also facilitates several school-based and community garden programs. She
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What did you study at University of Michigan? MPH, HBHE School of Public Health 2015Certificate in global health What is your current position? Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health at Baylor University What courses do you normally teach? I teach two MPH-level courses at Baylor University:PUBH 5360 Evaluation in Public and Community HealthPUBH
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What is your current position? Local Food Systems Outreach Specialist, The Common Market The Common Market is a non-profit regional food distributor that operates in four regions across the U.S: The Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Texas, and now the Great Lakes. In the Mid-Atlantic chapter, we work to aggregate product from over 80 family farms from New
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What is your current position? I am the Director for the Center for Regional Food Systems (CRFS) at Michigan State University where I’m also the WK Kellogg Foundation Endowed Chair in Food, Society and Sustainability. I’m also a professor in the Department of Community Sustainability, the department that houses CRFS. What courses do you normally
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Keesa V. Johnson ‘21 was the first black woman to graduate from the masters program of integrative design at the UM Penny Stamps School of Art and Design. She learned the ins and outs of farming through her time at the UM Campus Farm, initiated lasting relationships with Detroit farms through SFSI’s urban agriculture internship,
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Sarah Reinhardt MPH, RD’14 grew up in a family that spent time in the woods and valued the environment and social justice. She went to undergrad and graduate school and UM and now lives out her family’s values through her position at the Union of Concerned Scientists, where she is a Senior Analyst in the
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Karen Spangler, MPP, MUP ‘13 is the Policy Director of the National Farm to School Network. Karen’s 7 years of UM coursework (undergrad and grad) and experience both in and outside the classroom have influenced her worldview and contributed to her passion for equitable and policy driven food systems change. How did your studies at
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Brooke Kahl is the Project Manager for foodNEST 2.0 at the Mary Ann Swetland Center for Environmental Health Case Western Reserve University How did you become interested in sustainable food systems? I studied Organizational Studies and minored in Sustainable Food Systems at UM. Within Organizational Studies, I studied organizations that focused on the intersection of
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Date: May 3, 2021 Owner, Founder of South East Market Alita Kelly launched a grocery store in Grand Rapids that sources products first from Black, brown, indigenous, local or womxn-led farms and businesses. Kelly is also Vice Chair for the City of Grand Rapids Urban Agriculture Committee, Co-facilitator for the brand new chapter of the
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