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Tom Angotti - Hunter College

Tom Angotti is Professor in the Hunter College Department of Urban Affairs & Planning in New York City. From 1995 to 2001 he was Professor and Chair of the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. He is the author of New York for Sale: Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate (MIT Press, 2008), Metropolis 2000: Planning, Poverty and Politics (Routledge,1993), Housing in Italy (Praeger,1977), and many articles in professional journals. He has worked and written extensively on urban planning and community development in the United States, Latin America and Europe. He is a Fellow at the American Academy in Rome, co-editor of Progressive Planning Magazine, and participating editor for Latin American Perspectives and Local Environment. He was previously a city planner with the NYC Department of City Planning, and worked for state government in New Jersey and Massachusetts. He taught at the graduate level at SUNY, Columbia University, Harvard, and University of California at Berkeley. He holds a Ph.D. in Urban Planning and Policy Development from Rutgers University.

Babette Audant - Kingsborough Community College

Babette Audant went to Prague after college, where she quickly gave up teaching English in order to cook at a classical French restaurant. After graduating from the Culinary Institute of America, she worked as a chef in New York City for eight years at Rainbow Room, Beacon Bar & Grill, and other top-rated places. She joined Kingsborough's Department of Tourism & Hospitality in 2002. She has since earned a master's degree in public administration, and is a doctoral candidate in Geography at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research focuses on public markets and food policy in New York City. In addition to teaching at Kingsborough, she serves as Secretary of the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) and is a research fellow with the Public Space Research Group. She travels as often as possible, always on the lookout for the next great meal.

Grace M. Cho - College of Staten Island

Dr. Cho joined the faculty of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work (SASW) in 2004 after completing her Ph.D. in Sociology and Women's Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. In addition to her work as an academic, she is a contributing performance artist for the art collective Still Present Pasts: Korean Americans and the Forgotten War, which toured from January 2005 to May 2009. Her research interests include: collective trauma, war and militarism, migration, labor, sexuality, performance, and food. Professor Cho is also an active member of several organizations such as Nodutdol for Korean Community Development and the Brooklyn Health Food Campaign.

Jonathan Deutsch - Kingsborough Community College

Dr. Deutsch is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America (AOS, Culinary Arts), Drexel University (BS, Hospitality Management) and New York University (Ph.D., Food Studies). He has worked in restaurants, hotels, institutions and product development, both in the US and abroad. He is the author or editor of four books including Culinary Improvisation (Pearson, 2009) and Gastropolis: Food and New York City (Columbia University Press, 2009).

Nicholas Freudenberg - Hunter College

For more than 25 years, have developed implemented and evaluated interventions to promote health and prevent disease in low income communities in New York City. Since 1988 has conducted research in New York City jails to assist people returning from jail to reduce their risk from HIV and substance use and to reenter their communities successfully. Has also worked with advocacy groups and city agencies to develop jail reentry policies that improve public safety and community health. Widely published on public health policy, AIDS prevention, violence and community health interventions. Has studied the impact of city living on population health and with David Vlahov ad Sandro Galea was editor of Cities and Population Health. Currently looking at how corporate practices in the alcohol, automobile, food, firearm, pharmaceutical and tobacco industries affect morbidity and mortality and how public health advocacy campaigns have altered health damaging corporate practices. Work has been supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Open Society Institute and the National Institute for Drug Abuse, the National Institute of General medical Sciences and the American Legacy Foundation.

Mara Gittleman - Kingsborough Community College

Mara Gittleman is an Adjunct Lecturer at Kingsborough Community College, teaching a course on food sustainability as part of the CUNY Young Adult Program (CYAP) and developing programming around sustainable food jobs for the Center for Economic and Workforce Development (CEWD). She is also the founder and project director of Farming Concrete, a citizen science initiative to quantify food production in NYC.

Frederick Kaufman - College of Staten Island

Frederick Kaufman is an Associate Professor of English and Journalism at College of Staten Island and at CUNY's Graduate School of Journalism. Kaufman's nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The New York Times Sunday Book Review, New York Magazine, Harper's, The New Yorker, Gourmet, Gentleman's Quarterly, Interview, Spin, Spy, Aperture, Allure, Publisher's Weekly, The Village Voice Literary Supplement, and numerous other publications. His forthcoming book, A Short History of the American Stomach, will be published by Harcourt. Other books include Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Photographs and Memories, and the novel 42 Days and Nights on the Iberian Peninsula with Anís Ladrón. Documentary filmwriting credits include Fastpitch, the grand prizewinner of the Nashville International Film Festival. Kaufman received his B.A. from Yale and a Ph.D. in English from The Graduate Center.

Michael Krasner - Queens College

Michael A. Krasner has taught political science since 1970 at Queens College where he is also co-director of the Taft Institute for Government. Professor Krasner’s articles on grass roots politics and social movements have appeared in the Journal of Peace Research, Education and Urban Society, New York Affairs, and Urban Education. Professor Krasner has worked with the teachers of Townsend Harris High School and others to develop and refine a uniquely rigorous, ambitious, and engaging election simulation model, which has been successively adapted to presidential elections, New York City mayoral elections, New York State gubernatorial, senatorial, and legislative elections, and presidential primaries. Working with Professor Francois Pierre Louis, Professor Krasner has developed a program of community leadership and citizenship training that has since 2002 trained activists from new immigrant, minority, and low income communities in New York City. At Queens College, Professor Krasner teaches courses on Politics and Media, on presidential, gubernatorial, and mayoral elections, and on Film and Politics, in addition to coordinating the Political Science Department’s internship program.

Tammy Lewis - Brooklyn College

Tammy Lewis' research examines the effects of globalization on environmentalism and sustainability, with a focus on Latin America. Lewis is currently working on a book project that examines the effects of the transnational environmental movement in Ecuador. Both her research and teaching are interdisciplinary, crossing into the natural sciences. At Brooklyn College she will be working with faculty and students to develop "place-based" teaching and research opportunities that focus on sustainability issues in Brooklyn.

Peter Marcotullio - Hunter College

Prof. Marcotullio is a Distinguished Lecturer at Hunter College (2007 – present) where he teaches in the Department of Urban Affairs and Planning, the Department of Geography and in the CUNY Macaulay Honors College. Prof. Marcotullio is also Senior Fellow at the CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities. His research interests include urban sustainable development, urban environmental transition theories, globalization and urban change, urban and regional environmental planning and the relationship between urbanization and environment change. He has published over 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals and books. His co-edited volumes include, (forthcoming) Connected Cities: Hinterlands, Hierarchies and Networks, Sage publications, with Michael Douglass, and Scaling Urban Environmental Challenges: From Local to Global and Back, (2007), Earthscan, James & James, Pub, with Gordon McGranahan.

Mary Louise Penaz - Baruch College

Mary Louise Penaz is a creative writer and professor at Baruch College where she teaches a theme-based course on food justice issues and creative problem solving. A long time advocate of the farmers market and locally grown agriculture, her blog is dedicated to how we market the farmers market and handmade food Renaissance. Mary Louise holds a BA from Hunter College, an MFA from Bennington College, and a PhD from the University of Houston.

Janet Poppendieck - Hunter College

Professor Janet Poppoendieck has taught Sociology at Hunter College, City University of New York, since 1976. She received her undergraduate degree in History from Duke University (‘67) and her Masters (‘72) and PhD (‘79) degrees from the Florence Heller Graduate School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare at Brandeis University. From 1988 until 2001, she served as director of the Hunter College Center for the Study of Family Policy, where she helped to start the Welfare Rights Initiative, the Community Interpreter Project, and the Language Diversity Initiative. Her primary concerns, both as a scholar and as an activist, have been poverty, hunger, and food assistance in the United States. A 1984-1987 W.K. Kellogg Foundation National Fellow, she has traveled widely in both the U.S. and the developing world. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Association for the Study of Food and Society and the Advisory Committees of City-as-School and the Welfare Rights Initiative. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Woody Goldberg; they are the parents of Amanda Goldberg. Professor Poppendieck is currently a member of the Department's Personnel and Budget Committee.

Nancy Romer - Brooklyn College

Nancy Romer is Professor of Psychology at Brooklyn College and Executive Director of its Community Partnership, serving over 1500 Brooklyn teens each year. For the last 36 years she has taught Child and Adolescent Psychology, Psychology of Women, and a variety of Field Work/Internship courses. Romer has written extensively on topics in developmental and community psychology. She was named Murray Koppelman Professor of Community Service from 1997-99. From 2000-2009 she served on the executive council of the Professional Staff Congress (American Federation of Teachers) representing the 22,000 faculty and staff of CUNY and lead its Peace and Justice Committee and early contract campaigns. She has served on the national steering committees of US Labor Against the War and United For Peace and Justice. She has published in developmental psychology, higher education and most recently on grassroots movements in Latin America. Romer is a founder of the Brooklyn Food Coalition, an outgrowth of the Brooklyn Food Conference in May 2009 which she coordinated. Now serving as its General Coordinator, the Brooklyn Food Coalition is dedicated to building the grassroots Food Democracy movement neighborhood by neighborhood in Brooklyn.

Indrani Sen - CUNY School of Journalism

Indrani Sen is a freelance writer, an adjunct professor at the City University of New York's Graduate School of Journalism, and a writer in residence and journalism teacher at Bronx Academy of Letters, a New York City public high school. She was a staff report at Newsday from 2001 to 2005. She holds a B.A. in English literature and language from Oxford University and an M.S. from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.

Arlene Spark - Hunter College

MS, EdM, EdD Columbia University Teachers College. Registered dietitian and Fellow of the American Dietetic Association and of the American College of Nutrition. Joined Hunter College 1998. Taught at New York Medical College, Lehman College, Teachers College, Montclair University, New York Institute of Technology, Kean College, and Brooklyn College. Specialist in pediatric nutrition, nutrition education, and eating disorders. Published in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition, Nutrition Today, Preventive Medicine, and the Journal of the American Women’s Medical Association. Co-authored chapter on "Nutrition Counseling" from the award-winning textbook, Health Promotion Throughout the Lifespan, 5th ed.. Teaches Introductory Nutrition and Nutrition Education to undergraduates and Nutrition in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention and Nutrition and Health through the Life Cycle.

Barbara Syrrakos - City College

Professor Syrrakos teaches courses in world civilizations and modern Europe. Her research focuses on the intellectual underpinnings of the European Union and the historical processes that have led to its creation. She was a Fulbright scholar in residence in Brussels to research agricultural policy and democratic practices in the EU, drawing on her training in history and political science and her background in journalism. She has lived in and traveled Greece for over twenty years and has presented her work at the London School of Economics and other venues. She is now working on revising parts of her dissertation dealing with farmers, policy formation, and theories of deliberation for publication.

Ming-Chin Yeh - Hunter College

Dr. Yeh joined Hunter College, Program in Urban Public Health, Nutrition and Food Science track as an assistant professor in Fall 2003, upon completion of his training at the Yale University Prevention Research Center. His research involves developing innovative intervention strategies to promote fruit and vegetable consumption in multi-ethnic populations. Another research interest focuses on weight management for those who are overweight or obese.