Bio

I am a human geographer and food systems scholar. My research and teaching broadly explores the interactions between food and racial justice, labor movements, and transnational environmental and agricultural policy. My new book, Will Work for Food: Labor Across the Food Chain (UC Press), looks at labor across the food chain, exploring at the intersections between social movements in United States food systems and labor organizing. In addition to my first monograph, The New American Farmer: Immigration, Race, and the Struggle for Sustainability (MIT Press, 2019), I have also published in journals such as Geoforum, The Journal of Peasant Studies, Food, Culture, and Society, Antipode, Agriculture and Human Values, and Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems. I earned a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley and my undergraduate degree from Cornell University in Sustainable Agriculture and Development. I was named a fellow with the American Association of Geographers in 2024. I live in Syracuse, New York with my husband and two daughters.