November 14, 2017 By Julieth H. Ortiz Julieth H. Ortiz is a Dual Master’s Student, City Planning and Environmental Planning-Landscape Architecture, and a 2017 Berkeley Food Institute Community Engagement and Leadership Fellow. The local health data that has become publically available via the 500 Cities Project shows a higher prevalence of diseases such as diabetes, high blood…
October 25, 2017 By the Asian American Pacific Islander Health Research Group Postpartum Nutrition Folklore Project Khanh Hoa Thi Nguyen Former AAPIRHG Student Coordinator, Kristine Nguyen, Project Fundraising Volunteer and Marilyn Wong, MD, MPH For a woman who gives birth, the experience can be incredibly transformative. Her body goes through significant physical and emotional changes.…
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…