Professional Presentations

2018   Invited panelist, “Trends and Perspectives of Cuba-US Relations during the First Year of the Trump Administration,” Center for Research for International Politics and the Raul Roa Garcia Higher Institute of International Relations, Havana, Cuba

2018     Invited talk, “The Secret Old Crisis of Surplus: 20^th Century Geopolitics of U.S. Agricultural Governance, Gain & Glut,” Historical Research Cluster Speaker Series, AU SIS

2018     Invited presentation “Informing Agricultural Biodiversity Governance: Democratizing Data, Placing Policy,” SESYNC-NSF Pursuit Inaugural Workshop, Annapolis MD

2018     Invited speaker, “Food Justice in Appalachia and US South,” West Virginia University

2018     Invited speaker, Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement  (CIRAD), Montpellier, France

2018     Invited instructor, Intensive PhD Summer Course, “Agrarian Cosmopolitics: Political Ontology, Land Justice & the Decolonial Option,” Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands

2018     Invited panelist, XII Encuentros de Agroecología, Agricultura Orgánica y Sostenible, The Cuban Association of Agricultural and Forestry Technicians (ACTAF), Havana, Cuba

2018     Invited speaker, “Critical Food Interventions” Workshop and Symposium, University of Delaware

2018     Invited speaker, “Beyond the Grassroots: Participatory Ecology and Political Praxis,” Annual Mellon Symposium of the Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities, Haverford College PA

2018     Invited panelist, “Decolonial Feminist Political Ecology: Emergences and Futures,” American  Association of Geographers (AAG), New Orleans LA

2018     Invited panelist, “Agrobiodiversity & Conflict,” AAG, New Orleans

2018     Invited panelist, “Rethinking Food Access Research,” AAG, New Orleans

2018     Invited presenter, Emancipatory Rural Politics Institute conference, International Institute for Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands [unable to attend in person]

2018     Invited panelist, “Let Justice Roll Down Like Waters: The Role of Spirituality in African American Environmental Activism in the U.S. South,” International Antipode Foundation-funded Workshop and Symposium, University of Louisville, Kentucky

2018   Invited panelist, “Public Political Ecology: From Communities of Practice to Communities of Praxis,” Dimensions of Political Ecology conference, UK

2017   Invited panelist, “Trends and Perspectives of Cuba-US Relations during the First Year of the Trump Administration,” Center for Research for International Politics and the Raul Roa Garcia Higher Institute of International Relations, Havana, Cuba

2017   Invited panelist, “Food for Soul & Bread Is Gold,” with Massimo Batturo, American University

2017   Invited speaker, “Food & Farm Bill 2018,” Sierra Club, New York City

2017   Invited panelist, “Sharing Food & Agriculture Syllabi & Curriculum: Roundtable & Workshop” Agriculture, Food & Human Values Conference, Los Angeles

2017   Invited panelist, “The Broader Impacts of Our Research: Supporting Women in Geography’s 5^th Annual Panel,” AAG, Boston

2017   Invited panelist, “Research and Educational Travel to Cuba,” AAG, Boston

2016   Plenary Speaker, “Food Fight: From Global to Local,” Eastern Shore Land Conservancy’s Annual Planning Conference, Maryland

2015   Invited panelist, “Agrobiodiversity & Food Security/Sovereignty: Roundtable on concepts, methods, and measurement” AAG, Chicago

2014   Invited speaker, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Oslo, Norway

2014   Invited presenter and participant, “U.S. Farm Bill: Politics & Potential,” at weeklong Transatlantic Meeting on Food, Agriculture & Health Policy workshop, Institute for Agricultural & Trade Policy, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Italy

2014   Invited speaker, “Seeds to Free the Bounty: Agricultural Biodiversity As Policy & Potential,” Environmental Justice Speaker Series, Environmental & Sustainability Studies Program, University of Kentucky

Grants and Sponsored Research

Academic Honors & Awards

2018     Winner of the Campus Compact Mid-Atlantic’s Alan G. Penczek Service-Learning Faculty Award in the private institution category

• Recognizes and honors one faculty member in each of the three higher education sectors (public universities, community colleges, independent colleges and universities) for excellence in the integration of service-learning into the curriculum and impact to students and the community. Applicants/nominees are judged according to criteria expressed in the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning Principles of Good Practice for Service-Learning Pedagogy.

2018     Co-Principal Investigator for “Diverse Pathways to Nourishment: Understanding How Agricultural Biodiversity Enhances Food Security & Nutrition” National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) Pursuit, National Science Foundation (NSF) DBI-1639145 ~ $92,000

2018     Nominated for the Campus Compact Mid-Atlantic Early Career Engaged Scholarship Award

2018     Practicum Featured as First Model Program for Environmental Engagement, Building Just Communities, Campus Compact Mid-Atlantic 2018 Report

2017     School of International Service Dean’s Summer Research Award: “Cultivating Dialogue: A History, Geography & Policy Analysis of U.S.-Cuban Agrarian Cooperatives’ Collaboration” ($4,700)

2017     Berkeley Food Institute, University of California-Berkeley. Co-sponsored “US Farm Bill 2018: Politics, Policy & Potential” Symposium at AU SIS ($21,000)

2016     Christopher Reynolds Foundation Grant (through Center for Latin American & Latino Studies) to organize workshop and panel: “Cultivating Dialogue: A Comparative, Participatory Analysis of U.S. & Cuban Agricultural Cooperative Policies” ($4,000)

2015 & 2016 & 2018     School of International Service Faculty-Student Conference Travel Award

2013     Provost’s International Travel Award, American University ($2,500)