INFAS Members and Institutions


Academic Institutions

Alcorn State University

American University

Arizona State University

Bluegrass Community and Technical College

  • Holly Williams, Student

California Polytechnic State University- Pomona

  • Teresa Lloro, Associate Professor, Liberal Studies Department and Graduate Director, MS Regenerative Studies, Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies

California Polytechnic State University- San Luis Obispo

California State University Channel Islands

  • Rachel Soper, Assistant Professor of Sociology

Case Western Reserve University

  • Connor Riegal, Student, School of Medicine

Central State University 

  • Brandy Phipps, Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural and Life Sciences
  • Rayhan Shaheb, Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Life Sciences

City St. George's, University of London

  • Jason Shon, Student

City University of Hong Kong

CUNY (City University of New York)

College of Muscogee Nation

  • Matthew Yates, Tribal Services Coordinator
  • Mekko Tyner, Dean of Academic Affairs

Colorado State University

Columbia Climate School

  • Maya Moore, Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Connecticut College

  • Emma Rotner 

Cornell University

DePaul University

  • Emily Hamilton, Student
  • Howard Rosing

Duke University

  • Bridget Eklund

Eckerd College

  • Dave Himmelfarb, Instructor and Faculty Director, Eckerd College Community Farm, Environmental Studies

Ekiti State University

  • Oladele Charles Ajewole, Agricultural Economics and Extension Services

Emory University

  • Mica Jenkins, Nutritional Epidemiologist, Food Fortification Initiative
  • Ben Cousineau, Doctoral Candidate, Nutrition and Health Sciences, INFAS Coordinator

Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University

  • Jennifer Taylor, CoDirector; certified organic farmer

Fort Lewis College

  • Michelle Larkins, Assistant Professor, Environment and Sustainability

Goshen College

Greenfield Community College

  • Anthony Reiber, Natural Resources Senior Programs Coordinator, Sustainable Agriculture and Green Energy (SAGE)

Growing and Growth Collective 

Howard University

  • Miriam Hagan, PhD Student, Nutritional Sciences
  • Gbadebo Odularu, Faculty, Economics

Illinois Tech

  • Weslynne Ashton 

Indiana University 

  • Annie Shattuck, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography
  • Lessie Frazier Lennon, Professor, American Studies

Iowa State University

Johns Hopkins University

  • Philip McNab, Assistant Scientist, Center for a Livable Future
  • Roni Neff, Professor, Center for a Livable Future
  • Diana Watts, Lecturer, Environmental Science and Policy Program/AAP
  • Lacey J Gaechter, DrPH student, Environmental Health & Engineering, Center for a Livable Future

Kansas State University

Kentucky State University

  • Manoj Paudel, Department of Environmental Science and Sustainable Agriculture

Lincoln University of Missouri

  • Ye Su, Assistant Professor
  • Prabesh Koirala, Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences
  • Asamoah Oppong Zadok, Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Agriculture & Environmental Sciences

Louisiana State University

  • Nila Pradhananga, Graduate Research Assistant- PhD Candidate, School of Nutrition and Food Sciences

Loyola University Chicago

  • Tania Schusler, Assistant Professor, School of Environmental Sustainability

Michigan State University

Middlebury College

Mizzou - University of Missouri

Montana State University

The New School

Norfolk State University

  • Richard Martin, Director of Energy & Sustainability, Facilities Management

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

  • Chyi-lyi Liang, W.K. Kellogg Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Agriculture and Director, Center for Environmental Farming Systems. 
  • John O'Sullivan, Emeritus
  • Lydia Olagunju, Graduate Teaching Assistant and Graduate Research Assistant, Bioscience
  • Success Amobi-Ndubuisi Okafor, Ph.D. Student, Agribusiness and Applied Economics
  • Joel Alabi, Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Animal Sciences
  • Mariam Marafa, Graduate Student, Food and Nutritional Science
  • Christiana Omojo Ugbem, Graduate Student, Food and Nutritional Science
  • Omowunmi Odeyomi, PhD Student, Dept of Agribusiness, Applied Economics & Agriscience Education
  • Matthew Akindoyin, Animal Science, Graduate Student

North Carolina State University

The Ohio State University

Oklahoma State University

  • Dr. Valarie Blue Bird Jernigan, Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences, Center for Indigenous Health Research and Policy   
  • Joshua Campbell, Small Farm, Beginning Farmer and Rancher Specialist

Oregon State University 

Purdue University

Red Lake Nation College

  • Wendy Greenberg, Grant Writer/Manager, Adjunct Science Instructor 

Santa Clara University

  • Chris Bacon, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Department of Environmental Studies and Sciences

Savannah State University

  • Tanisha Felton, Graduate Student

South Seattle College

  • Alex Korsunsky, Faculty in Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Dept. of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Language

Southern University and A&M College

  • Rao M. Uppu, Professor, Environmental ToxicologySouthern University and A&M College

Southern University Law Center

 SUNY(State University of New York) - Brockport

 SUNY(State University of New York) - Buffalo

  • Leah Vermont, Assistant Director of Community Outreach and Partnerships, Veggie Van Training Center & Community Health Interventions Lab

Tennessee University

  • Shameka Cathey

Tuskegee University

  • Lindsey Lunsford, Assistant Professor and Coordinator for Food Systems, Education, and Policy 
  • Raymon Shange, Extension Administrator/Director, Carver Integrative Sustainability Center
  • Natilee McGruder Kyle, CISC HBCU Graduate Fellowship Program Manager
  • Kingsley Emmanuel Bentum, Graduate Student, Center for Food Animal Health, Food Safety, & Food Defense- College of Veterinary Medicine 
  • Asya Montgomery, Graduate Student, Food Science
  • Obianuju Sylvia Egiebor, PhD Candidate, Integrative Public Policy and Development, College of Agriculture, Environment and Nutrition Sciences
  • Geihan Abusinon, Graduate Student, Food and Nutritional Sciences
  • Kyla Thurston, Integrative Public Policy & Development PhD Student, College of Agriculture, Environment and Nutrition Sciences
  • Johnpaul Kagulire, PhD Student, Integrative Biosciences

UK Centre

  • Mariam Kadzamira, Senior Researcher - Agribusiness, Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International (CABI)

University of Buffalo

  • Eva Dawn Burk, Graduate Research Assistant, Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy

University of Alaska - Fairbanks

  • Eva Dawn Burk, Graduate Research Assistant, Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy

University of Arkansas

  • Carly Griffith Hotvedt, School of Law, Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative, Director of Tribal Enterprise

University of British Columbia

  • Colin Dring, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Land and Food Systems
  • Will Valley, Associate Professor of Teaching, Centre for Sustainable Food Systems, Faculty of Land and Food Systems

University of California - Agriculture and Natural Resources

  • Ruth Dahlquist-Willard, Small Farms and Specialty Crops Advisor, UC Cooperative Extension Fresno County
  • Vivian Wauters, Assistant project scientist, Sustainable Agriculture Research and Extension Program
  • Laurie Wayne, Cooperative Extension (UCCE) - Modoc, Lassen, and Siskiyou Counties, Nutrition & Food Systems Advisor

University of California, Berkeley 

University of California, Davis

University of California, Irvine

University of California, Los Angeles

  • Brooke Wilkinson, Director of Academic Initiatives, Undergraduate Education Initiatives
  • Pia Palomo, Academic Coordinator, UCLA Food Studies

University of California, Riverside

University of California, Santa Cruz

University of Central Arkansas

  • Kathryn A. Carroll, Assistant Professor, Department of Nutrition and Family Sciences

University of Connecticut

University of Dar es Salaam

  • Semeni Mussa Ngozi, Lecturer, Agricultural Economics and Business

University of the District of Columbia

  • Christopher Iweriebor, Graduate Student, College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Studies (CAUSES)

University of Florida

  • Ange Asanzi, Graduate Student, Department of Agricultural Education and Communication

University of Georgia

  • Moriah Freed, Graduate Research Assistant, School of Social Work

University of Hawai'i at Mānoa

  • Noa Lincoln, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Indigenous Cropping Systems Laboratory
  • Subhashni Raj, Assistant Professor in Urban and Regional Planning
  • Zoe Hastings

University of Hawai'i, West O'ahu

University of Idaho

  • Vovener de Verlands EDMOND, Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant, Forest Rangeland and Fire Sciences

University of Illinois - Chicago

  • Maggie Acosta, Senior Research Specialist, Great Lakes Center for Farmworker Health and Wellbeing

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

University of Johannesburg

  • Jacob Park, Visiting Professor

University of Kansas

University of Maryland Eastern Shore

  • Chinedu Ahuchaogu, PhD Candidate, Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Agriculture, Food and Resource Sciences

University of Massachusetts - Amherst

  • Sarah Berquist, Program Coordinator, Lecturer & Advisor for Sustainable Food & Farming, Stockbridge School of Agriculture 

University of Melbourne

  • Sophie Lamond, Research Fellow in Social Procurement, Melbourne School of Government

University of Michigan

  • Lesli Hoey, Associate Professor, Director of Doctoral Studies, Urban and Regional Planning
  • Seulgi Son, Doctoral Candidate, Urban and Regional Planning
  • Jennifer Blesh, Associate Professor, School for Environment and Sustainability
  • Sami Maldonado, School for Environment and Sustainability, Graduate Student

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

University of Nairobi

  • Steve Machan, Food systems and environmental policy expert, Center for Advanced Studies in Environmental Law and Policy (CASELAP)

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

University of Nebraska-Medical Center

  • Athena Ramos, Associate Professor, Central States Center for Agricultural Safety and Health

University of New Hampshire

University of New Mexico

University of North Dakota

  • Courtney Fischer, PhD Candidate, University of North Dakota, American Indian Foods Program

University of Notre Dame

  • Colleen Maher, Masters of Global Affairs Candidate, Pulte Institute for Global Development

University of Oklahoma

  • Clifton Cottrell, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Native American Studies

University of South Florida

University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

  • Kathryn Janda, Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences; UTHealth School of Public Health, Postdoctoral Fellow, Michael and Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living

University of Toronto

  • Evan Hazelett, PhD Candidate in Human Geography, Geography & Planning 

University of Utah

University of Vermont

University of Washington

  • Meredith Bird, Social Work Masters Student, School of Social Work
  • Jennifer Otten, Associate Professor, Food Systems, Nutrition, and Health Program
  • Marie Spiker, Assistant Professor, Food Systems, Nutrition, and Health program

University of Wisconsin System - Food Finance Institute

University of Wisconsin-Madison

University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh

  • Kevin Crawford, Professor, Chemistry and Sustainability Institute for Regional Transformations

University of Wyoming

  • Lacey Gaechter, Assistant Lecturer, Division of Kinesiology & Health
  • Gloria Oladeji, Graduate Student, Department of Kinesiology and Health

UTHealth School of Public Health

  • Kathryn Janda, Postdoctoral Fellow, Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences; Michael and Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living

Utah State University

  • Jaclyn Pace, Extension, Director

Vanderbilt University

  • Alex Korsunsky, Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology

Vermont Law School

  • Laurie Ristino 

Vermont State University

  • Jacob Park, Associate Professor (VT State U)

Virginia Tech

Washington State University

  • Marcia Ostrom, Associate Professor, WSU Food Systems Program
  • Holly Henning, Assistant Professor, Crop and Soil Sciences, Agricultural Food Systems
  • Jude Wait 

West Virginia University 

  • Megan Govindan, Research Scientist and Project Director, Institute for Community & Rural Health
  • Kimberly Carr, Research Associate, Health Sciences Center
  • Molly Linkous, Program Manager, Nourish WV

Non-academic Organizations and Networks

Agroecology Research-Action Collective

  • Antonio Roman-Alcalá

Ajo Center for Sustainable Agriculture

  • Katarina "Nina" Sajovec Altshul, Co-founder and Co-director

Bionutrient Food Association

Boone County (MO) Food Council

  • Deb Sprague, Council Coordinator | Health Educator

Cascadian Praxis

  • Warren neth, Communications

Center for Land-Based Learning

  • Sara Bernal 

City and County of Honolulu

  • Lucas McKinnon, Food Access and Equity Specialist, Office of Economic Revitalization Food Security and Sustainability Team

Farm Journal Foundation

  • Rose Barbuto

Farmers Market Coalition

  • Erica Hall, Board of Directors

Federation of American Scientists

  • Lacy Stephens, Senior Agricultural Marketing Specialist, Agricultural Marketing Service, Local and Regional Foods Division

Florida Food Policy Council

  • Erica Hall, Board Chair

Farm to Institution New England

  • Tania Taranovski, Director of Programs

Food First

Food Insight Group

  • Meagan Shedd, Director of Evaluation

Growing Green LLC

  • Natilee McGruder Kyle

Harvest Food Systems

Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development

  • Duncan Hilchey, Editor-in-Chief and Project Co-director, Thomas A. Lyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food Systems (a project of the Center for Transformative Action)

Mendocino Land Trust

Mezclada

Michael Adedotun Oke Foundation

  • Michael Adedotun Oke  

MIGAL Galilee Research Institute

  • Adam Abramson, Senior Researcher, Agricultural Economics & Sustainability Science

National Co-op Grocers

National Research Institute Finland (LUKE)

National Root Crops Research Institute

  • Ibikunle Funso Olaleru, Senior Research Scientist, Farming System Research Program, Umudike Abia State Nigeria

National Young Farmers Coalition

No Hunger Food Bank

North American Food Systems Network (NAFSN)

Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides

  • Christina Stucker-Gassi

Oklahoma Tribal Engagement Partners

One World Environment

  • Jahan Tavangar, Founder

Our Global Family Farm

Pawnee Nation

  • Electa Hare, Iriratutakicisu Systems Navigator

Pedestrian Space

Rural Coalition

  • AL Anderson-Lazo, Director, Participatory Research and Member Engagement

Ronin Institute

  • Jude Wait, Research Scholar, Agroecology in Action, Ronin Institute

R.W. Blake Academy FFA

  • Karey Lipham, Agriculture Instructor FFA Advisor, Polk County Public Schools

SciencesPo

  • Elisa Camorani 

USDA

  • Maria Graziani, Agricultural Marketing Research Specialist, Local and Regional Foods, Research Division, USDA TM-Agricultural Marketing Services (AMS)
  • Kamran Zendehdel, Research Branch Chief, Local and regional Foods Division, AMS
  • Lacy Stephens, Senior Agricultural Marketing Specialist, Agricultural Marketing Service, Local and Regional Foods Division

Utah Farmers Market Network

Wyoming Food Coalition

Independent Scholars