Experience

World Food Policy Center, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University

• United States
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Associate Director, World Food Policy Center

  • Jul 2017 - Present

  By bringing together the top players working in food systems to seek solutions together, the WFPC works to ensure that concern for food policy is at the forefront of local, national and international discourse, policy and action. The WFPC looks at the connection points across four pillars of food systems: Hunger and Malnutrition; Obesity and Diet-Related Disease; Agriculture and the Environment; and Food Safety and Food Defense, to create real-world policy solutions. WFPC identifies critical multi-stakeholder problems and harnesses research, creates an evidence base, convenes change agents and collaborates with policymakers and institutions to improve practices and policies that affect our food system, with positive impacts on public health, the environment, economic development, and social/cultural traditions, with a focus on low-income, marginalized communities.



Duke University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director of Planning for the World Food Policy Center

  • Jun 2015 - Present

  Execute and coordinate the major activities of the planning phase required to successfully establish a new World Food Policy Center at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy. The Center will seek to bridge the research and policy worlds and create major advances by coordinating work across four categories of world food issues: • Hunger • Obesity • The reciprocal relationship of agriculture with the environment • Food safety and security Execute and coordinate the major activities of the planning phase required to successfully establish a new World Food Policy Center at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy. The Center will seek to bridge the research and policy worlds and create major advances by coordinating work across four categories of world food issues: • Hunger • Obesity • The reciprocal relationship of agriculture with the environment • Food safety and security