INFAS Members

INFAS Members by Member Institution

Alcorn State University

  • Kevaughn Prout, Graduate Student, Carver Integrative Sustainability Center HBCU Fellow (22-23), 

American University

Ajo Center for Sustainable Agriculture

Arizona State University

Bionutrient Food Association

Boise State University

  • Carly Hyland, Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Public and Population Health

Boone County (MO) Food Council

  • Deb Sprague, Council Coordinator | Health Educator

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

Chatham University

  • Currently Open due to Recent Retirement

City University of Hong Kong

City, University of London

  • Jason Shon, Student

The City University of New York (CUNY)

College of DuPage

  • Jodi Trendler, Adjust Faculty, Horticulture - Sustainable Urban Agriculture Degree Program 

College of Muscogee Nation

Colorado State University

Cornell University

DePaul University

  • Emily Hamilton, Student

Eckerd College

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

Ecolibrium 3

Ekiti State University

  • Oladele Charles Ajewole, Agricultural Economics and Extension Services

Emory University

  • Mica Jenkins, Doctoral Student, Nutrition and Health Sciences
  • Ben Cousineau, Doctoral Student, Nutrition and Health Sciences, INFAS Coordinator

Farm Journal Foundation

  • Rose Barbuto

Farm to Institution New England

  • Tania Taranovski, Director of Programs

Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University

  • Jennifer Taylor, CoDirector; certified organic farmer

Food Finance Institute - University of Wisconsin System

Food First

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

Indiana University 

  • Annie Shattuck, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography

Intertribal Agriculture Council

  • Courtney Fischer
  • Electa L. Hare-RedCorn, Natural Resources Program Specialist

Iowa State University

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)

Johns Hopkins University

  • Philip McNab, Assistant Scientist, Center for a Livable Future
  • Roni Neff, 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

Mezclada

Michigan State University

Middlebury College

MIGAL Galilee Research Institute

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

Montana State University

  • Kristin Ruppel, Department of Native American Studies
  • Claire Luby, Assistant Professor, Department of Plant Sciences and Plant Pathology

National Root Crops Research Institute

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

The New School

Norfolk State University

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

North American Food Systems Network (NAFSN)

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

  • Kathleen 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

North Carolina State University

No Hunger Food Bank

The Ohio State University

Oklahoma State University

Oklahoma Tribal Engagement Partners

One World Environment

  • Jahan Tavangar, Founder

Oregon State University 

Our Global Family Farm 

Purdue University

Red Lake Nation College

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

The Resiliency Institute

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

Savannah State University

  • Tanisha Felton, Graduate Student

Santa Clara University

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

South Seattle College

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

Southern University and A&M College

Tennessee University

  • Shameka Cathey

Texas A&M University

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

UK Centre

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

University of Alaska - Fairbanks

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

University of Arizona

University of British Columbia

  • Colin Dring, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Land and Food Systems

University of California, Agriculture and Natural Resources

University of California, Berkeley 

  • Elizabeth Hoover, Associate Professor, Environmental Science and Policy Management
  • Berkeley Food Institute
    • Charisma Acey, Berkeley Food Institute Faculty Director
    • Victoria Chang, Berkeley Food Institute Educational Programs Director

University of California, Davis

University of California Cooperative Extension - Modoc/Lassen/Siskiyou

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 Merced

  • Erin Meyer, Sustainable Food Programs Coordinator

University of California, Riverside

University of California, Santa Cruz

University of Connecticut

University of the District of Columbia

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

University of Hawai'i, West O'ahu

  • Albie Miles (email)Sustainable Community Food Systems (webpage)
  • Subhashni Raj, Assistant Professor in Urban and Regional Planning

University of Hawai'i at Mānoa

  • Noa Lincoln, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Indigenous Cropping Systems Laboratory

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 Kansas

University of Maryland Eastern Shore

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

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

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

University of Missouri - Columbia

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 Toronto

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

University of Vermont

University of Washington

  • Meredith Bird, Social Work Masters Student, School of Social Work, 

University of Wisconsin-Madison

University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh

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

University of Wyoming

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

UTHealth School of Public Health

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

Vanderbilt University

  • Alex Korsunsky, Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology

Virginia Tech

Washington State University

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

West Virginia University 

Wyoming Food Coalition

Government-affiliated Scholars

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

Independent Scholars

Past INFAS Members