Bio

I am a human geographer and food systems scholar. My research and teaching broadly explore the interactions between food and racial justice, labor movements, and immigration and agricultural policy. My new book, Will Work for Food: Labor Across the Food Chain (UC Press), looks at labor across the food chain, studying the intersections between food system sustainability and labor organizing in the United States. 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 a B.A. in Sustainable Agriculture and Development from Cornell University. In 2024, I was named a fellow with the American Association of Geographers. Aside from writing and teaching, I love hiking, swimming, and biking around Central New York and hanging out with my husband and two daughters.