URBAN FOOD POLICY FORUM | December 15, 2022
     Combining Scholarship and Activism: 
     An Intergenerational Exchange
         About the Speakers and Moderators:
       Guest Speakers                                                         Moderators 
                                 Marion        Nestle is       Paulette                                 Ivonne      Quiroz     is    a    first-
                                 Goddard Professor of Nutrition,                                        generation Nicaraguan American 
                                 Food Studies, and Public Health,                                       researcher        and      academic, 
                                 emerita, at New York University                                        currently  working  on  her  PhD. 
                                 in  the  department  she  chaired                                      Ivonne’s  research  interests  are 
                                 from  1988-2003.  She  earned  a                                       food justice and access, and how 
                                 Ph.D. in molecular biology and an                                      that          intersects          with 
                                 M.P.H. in public health nutrition            race/ethnicity and health. Ivonne is also a Research 
       from the University of California, Berkeley.  She writes               Assistant at the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute and 
       books about food politics, most recently, Slow Cooked:                 an Adjunct Instructor at CUNY SPH. 
       An Unexpected Life in Food Politics.  She blogs almost                                            Lo Anderson is  a  30-YO  2nd 
       daily  at foodpolitics.com,  where  she  also  posts                                             Generation  AfroLatinx  creative 
       information about her books, other publications, and 
       lectures.                                                                                        and  activist  studying  Paralegal 
                                                                                                        Studies/Public Interest at Hostos 
                                  Robert  Gottlieb is  Professor                                        Community  College.  Lo recently 
                                 Emeritus        of     Urban       and                                 returned  to  school  to  pursue 
                                 Environmental  Policy  and  the                                        their education after working as 
                                 Founder and Former Director of               a Peer Counselor and Head Case Manager with young 
                                 the  Urban  &  Environmental                 adults  in  NYC's  only   LGBTQ+  Transitional  Housing 
                                 Policy  Institute  at  Occidental            Center  for  single  adults.  Their  work  in  Case 
                                 College. He is the author and co-            Management sparked an intense interest in prioritizing 
                                 author      of    fourteen      books,       the Biopsychosocial  needs  of  community  members 
       including Food Justice and his most recent book, Care-                 including  but  not  limited  to  BIPOC  and  other 
       Centered       Politics:    From      the    Home  to  the             disproportionately affected         people. Lo's      advocacy 
       Planet. Professor Gottlieb is the co-editor of two MIT                 works sit at many intersections and they are passionate 
       Press series, "Urban and Industrial Environments" and                  about creating accessibility between leaders in social 
                                                                              service systems and community members.  Lo currently 
       “Food,  Health,  and  Environment,”  and  has  been 
       a long-time       food      and     environmental         justice      works  with  CUNY  Research  Foundation  as  a  Team 
       researcher and activist.                                               Leader for the CUNY Health Advocates Program where 
                                                                              they  engage  Students  about  utilizing  resources 
                                                                              available to them on their campus.