# IATP Food and Society Fellows

The IATP Food and Society Fellows Program provides two-year, part-time fellowships to professionals working to address health, social justice, economic viability, environmental, and other issues in food and farming systems.

## History

The program started in 2001 as a collaboration between the Jefferson Institute and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), with the guidance and support of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. The program is currently administered by IATP and funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the Woodcock Foundation. Generally, 8-12 fellows are selected each year; 72 fellows have been selected through 2009.

## Food and Society Fellows

Food and Society Fellows organized by the year of their award.
   2009-2010 Elizabeth Ü, financial analyst, sustainable food system enterprises Fred Bahnson, farmer and writer, co-founder of Anatoth Community Garden Nicole Betancourt, social entrepreneur, co-founder of the Food Theater Project Alethia Carr, public health administrator Debra Eschmeyer, farmer, writer, food justice advocate with the FoodCorps Andy Fisher, co-founder, Community Food Security Coalition Shalini Kantayya, filmmaker, eco-activist Erin MacDougall, healthy food specialist and scientist with the King County Food and Fitness Initiative Sean Sellers, organizer with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers
   2008-2009 Zoë Bradury, organic farmer, freelance writer Patty Cantrell, program director, Michigan Land Use Institute Roger Doiron, founding director, Kitchen Gardeners International Curt Ellis, filmmaker, food advocate and co-founder and executive of FoodCorps
   Jim Goodman, journalist and organic farmer Alissa Hamilton, lawyer, author of Squeezed: What You Don't Know about Orange Juice Rose Hayden-Smith, garden educator and historian Arnell Hinkle, community food coach, founder of California Adolescent Nutrition and Fitness Andrea King-Collier, freelance journalist Lisa Kivirist, innkeeper, farmer, author of Rural Renaissance and "ECOpreneuring" Eduardo Sanchez, public health administrator Angela Tagtow, environmental nutrition consultant Bryant Terry, eco-chef, author of Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen and Vegan Soul Kitchen Cynthia Torres, organic farmer, co-founder of the Boulder County Food and Agriculture Policy Council
   2007-2008 Thomas Dobbs, professor emeritus of economics, South Dakota State University
   Anthony Flaccavento, founder, Appalachian Sustainable Development Holly Freishtat, nutritionist, sustainable food specialist Paul Greenberg, writer Deborah Kane, advocate for sustainable agriculture Preston Maring, physician, administrator, cook, advocate for farmers markets David Mas Masamuto, organic farmer, author of Wisdom of the Last Farmer Lorriane Stuart Merrill, dairy farmer, freelance writer Judith Weinraub, journalist Aimee Witteman, executive director, National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
   2004-2006 Wilbur Bullock, Jr., urban food access advocate with The Food Project
   T. Susan Chang, freelance writer Daniel Desmond, cooperative extension advisor Johanna Divine, writer, filmmaker Melinda Hemmelgarn, nutrition and health communications consultant Anna Lappé, author of Hope's Edge and co-founder of Small Planet Institute Joshua Miner, food system analyst Jennifer Wilkins, dietician, director of the Cornell Farm to School Program
   2003-2005 Curt Arens, farmer and journalist Ann Cooper, executive chef, author of Bitter Harvest and A Woman's Place is in the Kitchen Wylie Harris, rancher Mary Hendrickson, rural sociologist, co-director of the Food Circles Networking Project Rose Koenig, organic farmer Amanda Manning, administrator and professional specializing in food, nutrition, and health
   La Donna Redmond, founder, Institute for Community Resource Development Jonathan Thomas, scholar, farmer and sustainable agriculture advocate
   2002-2004 Molly Anderson, independent consultant on science and policy for social justice Jeremy Brown, fisher Leon Crump, administrator, Federation of Southern Cooperatives//Land Assistance Fund George DeVault, farmer, editor, firefighter Loni Kemp, policy analyst with The Minnesota Project Winona LaDuke, founding director, White Earth Land Recovery Project Michelle Mascarenhas, policy analyst, organizer Ricardo Salvador, expert in maize physiology Francis Thicke, dairy farmer Amy Trubek, scholar, executive director of Vermont Fresh Network Arlin Wasserman, vice president for corporate citizenship, Sodexo Mark Winne, nonprofit administrator, co-founder of the national Community Food Security Coalition
   2001-2003 Karen Anderson, executive director, Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Jersey Kari Bachman, agricultural extension specialist Claire Cummings, food and farming editor, KPFA-FM LaVon Griffieon, farmer, co-founder 1000 Friends of Iowa Hal Hamilton, executive director, Sustainability Institute Keecha Harris, food systems and public health consultant Richard Levins, professor emeritus of economics, University of Minnesota Gloria McCutcheon, professor of entomology, specialist in environmental crop production Anne Mosness, organizer, past president of Women's Maritime Association Denise O'Brien, farmer and community organizer
   Kyle Vickers, farmer, agri-business consultant