 Professor Molly Anderson was hired in 2015 by Middlebury College to develop a new program in Food Studies and teach about hunger and food security, fixing food systems, sustainability and system dynamics. She is especially interested in multi-actor collaborations for sustainability, sustainability metrics and assessment, food system resilience, human rights in the food system, food security and the right to food in the US and other industrialized countries, and the transition to a post-petroleum food economy. She is also interested in bridging the interests and concerns of academicians and community-based activists. She is involved in food system planning at the state and regional scales, participates in the national Inter-Institutional Network for Food, Agriculture & Sustainability and the regional Food Solutions New England network, and is a member of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems, organized by Olivier De Schutter and Olivia Yambi. She has worked as a private consultant for domestic and international organizations, with Oxfam America, and at Tufts University, where she was the founding Director of the Agriculture, Food and Environment Graduate Program in the School of Nutrition Science & Policy and directed Tufts Institute of the Environment for 2 years. Molly earned an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Systems Ecology from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a B.S. and M.S. in natural resource management and a certificate in Latin American Studies from Colorado State University. |
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