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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Interviewer: Asha McElroy December 2021 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
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Karen Spangler November 2021Interviewer: Asha McElroy 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
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Brooke Kahl Interviewer: Asha McElroy Date: September 2021 Project Manager, foodNEST 2.0 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
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Alita Kelly | Alumni Spotlight 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
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Caroline Baloga | Alumni Spotlight Date: May 3, 2021 Sustainability Coordinator for UVA Dine (Aramark), University of Virginia From working at the Campus Farm to interning with MDining and serving on the food team for the President’s Commission on Carbon Neutrality, Caroline was able to build the skills and leadership experience she needed to land
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Jena Brooker | Alumni Spotlight Date: April 19, 2021 Freelance journalist, Detroit A combination of coursework in journalism and experience at the Campus Farm has led Brooker to her current role as a freelance journalist. Currently, Brooker is a Midwest fellow for Grist writing about the environment, environmental justice, and food/agriculture. You can read her
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