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"