October 11, 2017 By Carmen Brick Carmen Brick is a PhD Student in Sociology and a 2017 Berkeley Food Institute Community Engagement and Leadership Fellow. In late 2016, I began to volunteer with the community center of St. Vincent de Paul of Alameda County, which serves a community with a family poverty rate of nearly…
September 11, 2017 By Erika Brown Erika Brown is a PhD Student in Epidemiology with an emphasis in Public Health Nutrition, and a 2017 Berkeley Food Institute Community Engagement and Leadership Fellow. This year, I have been fortunate enough to partner with the San Diego Hunger Coalition (SDHC) through the Berkeley Food Institute’s Community Engagement…
July 13, 2017 By Claire Kremen Kremen is Faculty Co-Director of BFI and a conservation biologist. Her research seeks to reconcile human resource use with biodiversity conservation by providing information, tools, and techniques that can be applied toward specific real-world situations. This blogpost was republished with permission from Cool Green Science. Read the original article here. As it is practiced…
July 6, 2017 BFI seeks to identify, celebrate, and showcase experiences of new generation changemakers. By learning from and sharing their stories, we hope to ultimately advance leadership opportunities in food systems work. The main objectives of the project are to: a) Showcase the experiences and motivations of changemakers to highlight their work and inspire…
May 4, 2017 Rachel Kelley, a medical student at the UC Berkeley-UC San Francisco Joint Medical Program, spent two summers studying tomato workers’ occupational health by interviewing farmworkers, reviewing literature, and collaborating with rural community health clinics in Tennessee and California. She worked with the Migrant Clinicians Network, East Tennessee State University Occupational and Environmental…
May 3, 2017 In 2015, the Berkeley Food Institute provided seed funding to six multi-disciplinary and innovative research projects in food and agriculture. At this event, grantees shared the results of their research with the Berkeley community. Abstracts on each project can be found in the event program here, and a video recording of each presentation can be found at…