August 14, 2018 By Mackenzie Feldman and Annie Lu Mackenzie (top) graduated in May 2018 with a degree in Society and Environment with a minor in Food Systems. She was BFI’s UC Global Food Initiative Student Ambassador during the 2017-18 school year. Annie (bottom) graduated in May 2018 with a degree in Environmental Economics and…
August 14, 2018 By Dana Moskowitz Dana is a recent graduate of UC Berkeley and has a strong interest in public health and creating healthy communities. In her free time she reads, sews, and goes outside. Looking at a map of over 160 urban farms and community gardens in the East Bay region of the…
July 12, 2018 By Kristine Madsen, MD MPH Dr. Kristine Madsen, a pediatrician, is the Faculty Director of the Berkeley Food Institute and an Associate Professor at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health. Her team published the first study on the impact of Berkeley’s soda tax. The soda industry just managed an end-run around the…
July 11, 2018 Berkeley Food Institute Researcher Vera L. Chang reflects on the meaning behind her prize-winning entry for Rachel Tanur Memorial Prize for Visual Sociology By Vera L. Chang Vera L. Chang is a Berkeley Food Institute researcher and a doctoral student at the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC Berkeley. …
May 24, 2018 By Moira O’Neill, JD Moira O’Neill is a Research Scientist, Institute of Urban and Regional Development, and Senior Research Fellow, Center for Law, Energy & the Environment. Photos by Center for Ecoliteracy. Why does school meal reform matter, and why so much in Oakland? You can not assume that children will eat…
March 29, 2018 By Mackenzie Feldman, Lucinda Laurence, and Dani Solis This semester, the student representatives of the Food Systems Minor Advisory Committee, Dani Solis and Mackenzie Feldman, partnered with the student representative of the Berkeley Food Institute Undergraduate Advisory Council, Lucinda Laurence, to create the colloquium series “Critical Discussions in Food Systems.” The colloquium…