I am committed to engaging public audiences in conversations around food and agricultural issues. See selected examples below. 

Management Styles, Vendor Clusters and Market Cohesion: Learning from Qualitative Research on Farmers Market Organizations. Farmers Market Federation of New York Monthly Members & Friends Meetup.
Diversification as Landscape Change, NC State University Genetic Engineering and Society Colloquium 
Family farms are struggling with two hidden challenges: health insurance and child care, The Conversation
People of the Bean, Anthropology News
The Ohio Farm Poll, Ohio Farm Bureau Podcast: Our Ohio Weekly
Exploring Farmer Stress, KX Podcast
Farmer Social Support, Mindful Farmers Podcast
Beginning Farmers and Burnout, Farm and Dairy (quoted)

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What do we mean when we say 'local'?

In early 2020, I developed and presented a participatory workshop with Hilary King, Yulia Chuvileva, and Cicely Garret for the Georgia Organics Conference in Athens, GA. With our audience of farmers market managers, grocery buyers, and food system organization staff, we mapped the different meanings that people attribute to the idea of "local" foods and created strategies to build across differences to further our shared goals of a more resilient and just food system. We worked with RIVA Illustrations to distill the workshop's key outcomes into a visual format and are bringing the workshop to additional food systems audiences.