January 17, 2019 By Nina F. Ichikawa Nina F. Ichikawa is currently the Interim Director at the Berkeley Food Institute. The Berkeley Food Institute was honored to take part in the most recent issue of Policy Notes, the official publication of the Goldman School of Public Policy. One of our founding partner schools, Goldman (or GSPP…
December 12, 2018 By Meg Prier Meg Prier is Basic Needs Food Manager at the Berkeley Food Institute and member of the Basic Needs Committee Staff Leadership team. From the beginning, Basic Needs efforts and advocacy at UC Berkeley have been student initiated and led. We define “basic needs” as food, housing, and financial security.…
As Campus Food Equity and Inclusion Policy Fellows at the Berkeley Food Institute, we have worked to uplift the UC Berkeley community, specifically on the issue of food justice.
November 13, 2018 By Jennifer Sowerwine and Charisma Acey (From left to right) Jennifer Sowerwine is Assistant Cooperative Extension Specialist in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management. Charisma Acey is Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning. On a recent sunny afternoon in West Oakland, 300 elementary school students gathered at City Slickers…
October 17, 2018 By Timothy Bowles, Joanna Ory, and Alastair Iles (From left to right) Timothy Bowles is an Assistant Professor, Joanna Ory is a Postdoctoral Fellow, and Alastair Iles is an Associate Professor, all with the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management. Do you have an intuitive sense of what it means…
October 16, 2018 By Rosalie Z. Fanshel Rosalie Z. Fanshel is the Program Manager at the Berkeley Food Institute. As science PhD students at UC Berkeley, Aidee Guzman and Kripa Jagannathan spend a lot of time in the lab analyzing data. Yet their work also involves many hours walking through fields with farmers in California’s…