https://www.foodscholarshipjustice.org/home daily 1.0 2026-01-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/585889e96b8f5be324fe1406/1595937094941-U9IMJ4RDQHI3IJF8M5RW/2017-07-05%2B09.35.37%2Bcopy.jpg HOME https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/585889e96b8f5be324fe1406/9d9e4324-61bf-43f1-9d0a-e71b80dd8c3b/fjar+lab+website+1.png HOME - Food and Social Justice Action Research Lab The Food and Social Justice Action Research (FJAR) Lab at The New School builds on Dr. Kristin Reynolds’ long-standing work with community-based food systems and social justice organizations and institutions through action research and collaborations. The FJAR Lab aims to contribute to racial and economic justice in the food system through critical and participatory action research – in New York City and State, nationally and internationally. We work for a dignified food system for all. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/585889e96b8f5be324fe1406/1596639260964-J7FJEKD1MQ48FL22XDEM/2017-07-05%252B09.35.37%252Bcopy.jpg HOME - Research focus One branch of her research examines social equity dimensions of urban agriculture and food policy, about which she has researched and published extensively. A second branch of her scholarship is participatory research and scholar activism, including work with numerous community-based food and social justice organizations, and as co-founder and coordinator of the American Association of Geographers Food and Agriculture Specialty Group’s Food Justice Scholar-Activist/Activist Scholar community of practice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/585889e96b8f5be324fe1406/1595932457865-8TL8ODMWO9C5B3KA4IR4/image-asset.jpeg HOME - consulting Program evaluation | Curriculum design Policy and funder research https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/585889e96b8f5be324fe1406/1595932474583-DCWTQAPRSC2HXO95H3V0/syd-wachs-slItfWbhijc-unsplash.jpg HOME - Public Speaking Kristin speaks regularly in a variety of venues in the United States and internationally. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/585889e96b8f5be324fe1406/ed194fb9-64fa-4c01-aaf7-723b4c5dee74/Screenshot+2025-03-19+at+10.55.28%E2%80%AFAM.png HOME The FJAR Lab’s Founding Director Dr. Kristin Reynolds is a critical food geographer and educator in New York City. She brings her focus on social justice in the global food system to her research, teaching, public speaking, and consulting. Kristin has worked with many community-based nonprofit organizations and small-scale farms through her research, teaching, and consulting. Her scholarship and action research focus on informing the creation of socially just food systems in urban and rural spaces. https://www.foodscholarshipjustice.org/kristin-reynolds daily 0.75 2026-03-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/585889e96b8f5be324fe1406/1595937803396-M93B3QDB26QU3JSQINEK/DSCF8073+copy.jpg Kristin Reynolds https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/585889e96b8f5be324fe1406/1595932474583-DCWTQAPRSC2HXO95H3V0/syd-wachs-slItfWbhijc-unsplash.jpg Kristin Reynolds https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/585889e96b8f5be324fe1406/17e8f0b2-d274-444d-afb1-02d099319fa9/Radical+Food+Geographies+%5BFC%5D+-+FINAL.jpg Kristin Reynolds - RADICAL FOOD GEOGRAPHIES Hammelman, C., Levkoe, C., and Reynolds, K. 2024. Radical Food Geographies: Power, Knowledge and Resistance. Bristol University Press, Food & Society: New Directions series. UK. Publisher description: This collection presents critical and action-oriented approaches to addressing food systems challenges across places, spaces, and scales. With case studies from around the globe, Radical Food Geographies explores interconnections between power structures and the social and ecological dynamics that bring food from the land and water to our plates. Through themes of scale, spatial imaginaries, and human and more-than-human relationships, the authors explore ongoing efforts to co-construct more equitable and sustainable food systems for all. Advancing a radical food geographies praxis, the book reveals multiple forms of resistance and resurgence, and offers examples of co-creating food systems transformation through scholarship, action, and geography. Available from Bristol University Press or Amazon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/585889e96b8f5be324fe1406/1549758656981-DUYBNTOEBBBR1USYEVZO/Reynolds+and+Cohen+-+BEYOND+THE+KALE+COVER+copy.jpg Kristin Reynolds - BEYOND THE KALE Reynolds, K. and Cohen, N. 2016. Beyond the Kale: Urban Agriculture and Social Justice Activism in New York City. University of Georgia Press, Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation series. Beyond the Kale: Urban Agriculture and Social Justice Activism in New York City examines the work of people of color and women to create more socially just systems, and the possibilities for scholarship to support such initiatives. Publisher description: “Urban agriculture is increasingly considered an important part of creating just and sustainable cities. Yet the benefits that many people attribute to urban agriculture—fresh food, green space, educational opportunities—can mask structural inequities,thereby making political transformation harder to achieve. Realizing social and environmental justice requires moving beyond food production to address deeper issues such as structural racism, gender inequity, and economic disparities. Beyond the Kale argues that urban agricultural projects focused explicitly on dismantling oppressive systems have the greatest potential to achieve substantive social change.” Available from University of Georgia Press or Amazon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/585889e96b8f5be324fe1406/e0bb7d65-dcb0-4f04-9e12-a6bb5c59c846/inegalites.jpg Kristin Reynolds - INEGALITES ET RAPPORTS DE POUVOIR EN VILLE Darly, S. et Reynolds, K. (Equal authorship) 2023. "Produire des aliments en ville/Politiser l’alimentation en contexte néolibéral. Montée en puissance de l’agriculture urbaine commerciale et nouvelle question agraire à Paris et New York à la fin des années 2010.” In Inégalités et Rapports de Pouvoir en Ville: Actualité de la critique urbaine. Clerval, A., Gardesse, C. and Rivière, J. eds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/585889e96b8f5be324fe1406/4515e026-6a9a-4f2b-8ea9-356ceadab78e/militante.jpg Kristin Reynolds - MILITANTISMES ET POTAGERS Reynolds, K. 2021. “Construire la justice sociale par l’éducation à l’agriculture urbaine: L’exemple de la Farm School NYC.” In Militantismes et Potagers, edited by L. Granchamp and S. Glatron. Septenrion Presses Universitaires, Environment and Society series. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/585889e96b8f5be324fe1406/1594660350091-KEJQIOIPFKAS5JGKMQVO/Publications_book+covers_EJ+Key+Issues+%281%29.jpg Kristin Reynolds - ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE Environmental Justice: Key Issues is the first textbook to offer a comprehensive and accessible overview of environmental justice, one of the most dynamic fields in environmental politics scholarship. Kristin’s chapter, “Food, Agriculture, and Environmental Justice: Perspectives on Scholarship and Activism in the Field” explores histories in the field and highlights leadership by BIPOC (Black-Indigenous-People of Color) activists and scholars. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/585889e96b8f5be324fe1406/1594660087263-7FL6PE5AHPTTSJHRG8E2/Publications_book+covers_Hdbk+rooftop+ag.jpg Kristin Reynolds - ROOFTOP URBAN AGRICULTURE Specht, K., Reynolds, K., and Sanyé-Mengual, E. 2017. Community and social justice aspects of rooftop agriculture. Springer. While rooftop farming experiences are sprouting all over the world the need for scientific evidence on the most suitable growing solutions, policies and potential benefits emerges. Rooftop Urban Agriculture brings together existing experiences as well as suggestions for planning future sustainable cities. Kristin’s co-authored chapter “Community and social justice aspects of rooftop agriculture” discusses social equity and community development dynamics of this increasingly popular practice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/585889e96b8f5be324fe1406/1595000179963-44T33SPHUOXI78ZZ35B8/Outstanding+in+Fields.gif Kristin Reynolds - OUTSTANDING IN THEIR FIELDS Outstanding in their Fields profiles seventeen women farmers and ranchers who dramatize the pioneering spirit, creativity and courage that animates much of the kinds of artisanal agriculture where women are leading the way. Kristin’s chapters describe the work of California women farmers growing and marketing products from blueberries to goat yogurt to alpaca fiber. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/585889e96b8f5be324fe1406/db8487a9-d437-4d12-8b03-8915c1428b6f/Screenshot+2025-02-28+at+9.27.20%E2%80%AFAM.jpg Kristin Reynolds Reynolds, K., Gottfried, C., Thomas, T., and Smith, C. L. 2024. “Examining the Social Equity Implications of the USDA’s Office of Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production Granting Program and Urban County Offices through a Racial Equity Lens: Final Report from a Pilot Study.” August 15, 2024. Reynolds, K., Gottfried, C., and Thomas, T. 2024. Racial equity and the USDA’s Office of Urban Agriculture granting program and urban offices [Policy brief]. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development. Advance online publication, open access here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/585889e96b8f5be324fe1406/1549759292010-QQVT1K7T4MG6Z82LTOAN/5BF.png Kristin Reynolds Reynolds, K., and Darly, S. (Equal authorship.) 2018. Commercial urban agriculture in the global city: perspectives from New York City and Métropole du Grand Paris. Food Policy Monitor, 12/11/18. City University of New York Urban Food Policy Institute. Cohen, N., Reynolds, K., and Sanghvi, R., 2012. Five Borough Farm: Seeding the Future of Urban Agriculture in New York City. Design Trust for Public Space: New York, NY. Reynolds, K. 2009. Urban agriculture in Alameda County, CA: Characteristics, challenges, and opportunities for assistance. University of California Small Farm Program Research Brief. UC Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/585889e96b8f5be324fe1406/1597667115187-U3726KZE1PRMSWU5H4H9/CASFS%2Bcover_Page_01.jpg Kristin Reynolds Reynolds, K. 2015. Small farm economic viability. In Teaching Direct Marketing and Small Farm Viability: Resources for Instructors, 2nd edition. Perez, J., Brown, M., & Miles, A., eds. 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In order to ground the Lab in community needs, we conferred with trusted leaders in the New York City food and social justice community and academic institutions about action research in which the FJAR Lab may engage to support their work in the short, medium, and long term. Building on these conversations, we have honed the focus of the Lab and its potential activities for the following 1-5 years. This work was supported in part by a grant from the Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School. In 2025, we entered our third year, and, in line with an action research approach, we have continued to build upon what we learned in the first two years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/585889e96b8f5be324fe1406/b65a544e-4534-43a0-af17-27f429e6d413/kristin2.jpeg ABOUT - Kristin Reynolds, Ph.D., Founder and Director, Food & Social Justice Action Research Lab Kristin Reynolds is a critical food geographer based in New York City, with research focus in the US and France. Her scholarship and activism focus on informing the creation of socially just food systems in urban and rural spaces. As Chair and Associate Professor of Food Studies at The New School, Kristin teaches about global food systems, social justice, urban agriculture, and food policy. She is also a Faculty Affiliate in the Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School. From 2013-2022, she taught on social justice in the global food system at Yale School of the Environment, where she is now an Affiliated Faculty at the Yale Center for Environmental Justice, and is an associate research fellow at the European School of Political and Social Sciences in Lille, France. Her first book Beyond the Kale: Urban Agriculture and Social Justice Activism in New York City, (2016; University of Georgia Press, with co-author N. Cohen), examines and highlights the work of people of color and women to create more socially just systems, and the possibilities for scholarship to support such initiatives. Her second book Radical Food Geographies: Power, Knowledge, and Resistance (2024; Bristol University Press, with co-editors C. Hammelman and C.Z. Levkoe) presents critical and action-oriented approaches to addressing food systems inequities across places, spaces, and scales, and she has published in numerous scholarly and public fora. Kristin has also worked with many community-based nonprofit organizations and small-scale farms through her research, teaching, and consulting, which informed her founding of the Food and Social Justice Action Research Lab. Collaborators have included the city wide Farm School NYC; statewide Corbin Hill Food Project; and Hattie Carthan Community Garden in Brooklyn; and Harlem Grown in Manhattan; as well as Soul Fire Farm in upstate New York, where she served on the founding Board of Directors from 2015-2020; the national Food Chain Workers Alliance and HEAL Food Alliance. She served on the Board of Directors of the Levitt Foundation from 2014-2025. She holds a Ph.D. in Geography and M.S. in International Agricultural Development from the University of California, Davis, and bachelor’s degrees in International Soil and Crop Sciences and French Language and Literature from Colorado State University. She has lived and worked on numerous farms in the United States and Europe. You can visit Kristin’s LinkedIn here, Instagram here, and Bluesky here. 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Passionate about interdisciplinary collaboration, Monika works to bridge disciplines, amplify marginalized voices, and harness technology for meaningful societal impact. You can visit Monika’s LinkedIn here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/585889e96b8f5be324fe1406/9b82efe5-eedf-4e2f-8686-099165273f36/IMG_1820.jpg ABOUT - Kyndal Coleman, M.S. Candidate, Public Engagement Fellow, Food & Social Justice Action Research Lab (On leave 2026) Kyndal Coleman is a Public Engagement Fellow and an Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management master’s student at The New School from Villa Rica, Georgia. Kyndal received her bachelor’s degree in Environmental Economics and Management from the University of Georgia where her involvement with community organizing sparked an interest in scholar-activism. As a master’s student, Kyndal’s academic interests center on bridging the gap between policy, activism, research and everyday people. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/585889e96b8f5be324fe1406/5e23e593-e7f6-420a-a52c-7f431354e0c1/IMG_2735.jpg ABOUT - Cédric Gottfried, M.A., Ph.D. Candidate, Public and Urban Policy; Research Assistant, Food & Social Justice Action Research Lab Cédric Gottfried is a Ph.D. candidate in Public and Urban Policy at The New School, with Master’s degrees in Cultural Heritage Management from the University of Angers, France, and in Urban and Regional Planning from the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers of Paris. He has worked as a project manager and consultant in heritage preservation and planning. His professional practice and research focuses on urban-rural interfaces, peripheral territories, natural resources management, land use conflicts, and social equity in urban agriculture. He uses his knowledge of mapping and data processing to support communities and policymakers in identifying issues and recommendation of solutions. His doctoral dissertation work centers on the relations of power between stakeholders involved in landscape production in intensified, peripheral agroecosystems, with a particular focus on the agro-industrial context of Northern France. You can visit Cédric’s LinkedIn here, and Bluesky here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/585889e96b8f5be324fe1406/76d7b46b-15b0-4447-8fbb-4d3a2c413779/Majandra+Rodriguez+Acha.jpg ABOUT - Majandra Rodriguez Acha, M.S. Candidate, Public Engagement Fellow, Food & Social Justice Action Research Lab Majandra (Maria Alejandra) Rodriguez Acha is from Lima, Peru. She is a Public Engagement Fellow at The New School in the Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management MS. Recently, she has worked with the Youth Climate Justice Fund, the Funder’s Learning and Action Co-Laboratory on Gender and the Environment, and FRIDA | The Young Feminist Fund, as well as being a researcher on Just Transition in Peru with the World Resources Institute. Majandra is interested in interrogating and countering false solutions to the climate crisis, in exploring community-based alternatives to hegemonic paradigms, and in exploring notions of the “end of the world” and navigating hopelessness/sources of hope in the context of polycrisis, centering decolonial, anti-racist and queer ecological perspectives. 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You can visit Tamarra’s LinkedIn here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/585889e96b8f5be324fe1406/582cb665-5cdb-4040-83fd-5fc4f9532efc/3c1fbcb0-2134-419d-99ce-2e9bbd8f80ab.JPG ABOUT - afi Alexandra, M.F.A Candidate, The New School afi Alexandra (it/its) is a Public Engagement Fellow at The New School’s SexTech Lab from Jakarta, Indonesia. It is currently enrolled in the Creative Writing MFA program concentrating in non-fiction and poetry with a background in General Psychology from the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology at Adelphi University. afi is also a labor organizer with the New Student Workers Union (NewSWU) and the Student Employees at the New School (SENS). It is interested in a critical examination of the various modes of extraction and how narratives around subjects like food are used to justify and legitimize state-enforced national identity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/585889e96b8f5be324fe1406/adb399b0-0e12-4bbd-b1ab-bedbfdeb1569/Photo+Bio+Nad%C3%A8ge-DEGBELO.jpg ABOUT - Agossè Nadège Degbelo, Ph.D. Agossè Nadège Degbelo received her Ph.D. in Sociology through the Environment at the Institut National de Recherche sur l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE) in France. She was affiliated with the research unit on Environment, Territories in Transition, Infrastructures, and Societies at the University of Bordeaux, her doctoral research (under the direction of Dr. Jacqueline Candau and Dr. Valérie Deldrève) examined issues of environmental justice and farmworker exposure to pesticides. Her project brought together environmental health, human health and intersectional inequities, mobilizing data on precarious and foreign agricultural workers in France. Nadège also has an M.A. in Sociology from University of Bordeaux, and is working with the FJAR Lab on a project addressing inequities experienced by immigrant and racialized farmworkers in the South of France. You can visit Nadège’s LinkedIn here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/585889e96b8f5be324fe1406/f4141a0b-93c1-4ef6-ae12-8f793fbf97a2/Mike+Harrington.jpg ABOUT - Mike Harrington, M.S., Sustainability Engagement Director, Tishman Environment and Design Center; Ph.D. Candidate, Public and Urban Policy Mike Harrington is responsible for supporting the work of the Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School by liaising with offices and departments throughout the university and implementing projects that advance the university’s commitment to sustainability and environmental justice. Before joining the TEDC team, Mike worked at Elevate Energy, organizing around creating equity in the energy efficiency market. He obtained his Master’s degree in Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management from The New School and has a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He is currently a Ph.D. Candidate at The New School studying urban design from an environmental justice perspective. Mike is co-founder and collaborator on the “Understanding Food and Environmental Justice through Music” project. You can visit Mike’s LinkedIn here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/585889e96b8f5be324fe1406/fbe76982-1d51-4ca2-bb9e-d9558c19891d/1724810336492.jpeg ABOUT - Rocco Morabito, M.S. Candidate, The New School Rocco Morabito is an artist and educator who produces photography, sculpture, and video works. Within his practice, Rocco investigates the romanticization and preservation of obsolete technology through reconceptualization. He also interweaves his own familial tragedies with fictive narratives of other authors as a means of processing grief—one vignette at a time. Having first joined Parsons to study photography, Rocco has been part of the community for over a decade. He holds a BFA in Photography from Parsons School of Design, a B.S. in Food Studies from Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, and is currently pursuing an M.S. in Environmental Policy & Sustainability Management at Parsons School of Design. His current academic research interests are investigating how public urban infrastructures influence health and the impact of climate change on the global food system. https://www.foodscholarshipjustice.org/what-we-do daily 0.75 2026-03-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/585889e96b8f5be324fe1406/a1088924-0895-4170-bdb8-627d88dc2261/Screenshot+2025-04-15+at+11.05.19%E2%80%AFPM.png What We Do - The Understanding Global Food and Environmental Justice through Music Initiative (2022-ongoing) (In collaboration with Mike Harrington) Music can be used to understand and communicate about social justice as it relates to food, agriculture, and the environment. Communicating through music can strengthen and uplift food and environmental justice practice that is diverse in terms of epistemology, representation, and mode and open the door for deeper understandings of inequity and justice in ways that step away from Eurocentric insistence on linear and written communication to teach, exchange knowledge, or debate. Building on public programs that we have organized through our roles in the Food Studies Program and The Tishman Environment and Design Center beginning in 2022, and now joined by the Food and Social Justice Action Research Lab, this initiative at The New School explores music as a way to understand structural and historical inequities in the food system, and as a source of strength and power among those fighting against oppression. Events and speaking engagements to-date: Talk: DJ Lynnée Denise: Pass the Peas, Music Migration, Ital Food, and a Black Sense of Place (2025) Music and food are bound up with place and articulations of liberation. Alongside their most precious belongings, people travel with recipes, the sounds of home, and the promise of new tomorrows. Lyrics help us trace the cultural markers of a place and a people. This event featured a talk and live demonstration -a mixtape or improvisational intervention- of the sound of Black food. DJ and scholar Lynnée Denise took us on an audio-visual journey through the movement of foodways in the lyrics of jazz, blues, reggae, and funk. The exploration connected migration routes and diasporic interconnectedness to how we hear, produce, and preserve taste traditions through music. Online event: Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters: A Multi-Media Book Panel (2024) Music can open the door for deeper understandings of inequity and justice in ways that step away from Eurocentric insistence on linear and written communication to teach, exchange knowledge, or debate. This event explored these modes of understanding and resistance through a multi-media discussion of Lynnée Denise’s 2023 book Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters (University of Texas Press). Online event: Magdalena: a Threatened River of Music, Knowledge and Culture (2022) This event hosted a conversation about the environment, history, and culture of the Magdalena River, the main River of Colombia. It featured speakers who have intimate knowledge of how the river has shaped not only the history and culture of Colombia but also the world. Online event: Listen up! Understanding Food Justice and Environmental Justice Through Music (2022) As part of the Food Studies’ program’s “Critical Food Studies and Social Justice” series and the Tishman Environment and Design Center’s Earth Week activities, “Listen Up!” centered ideas of decolonization while recognizing that there is debate about the use of this term beyond political decolonization and that music is not simply a commodity to be consumed, but rather, important and powerful to many communities and peoples’ understanding and communicating about the world, surviving injustices, and as a guiding light. The event was moderated by Dr. Kristin Reynolds, Chair of Food Studies, and Mike Harrington, Assistant Director at the Tishman Environment and Design Center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/585889e96b8f5be324fe1406/8c203aa1-0e41-4d34-b9e0-c4ec4ef5f3fe/face.gif What We Do - Confronting Ethno-Racial Discrimination in Agricultural Work in France. (2022-25) This project investigates ethno-racial inequities and discrimination in agricultural work in France — with particular focus on foreign and/or racialized workers in the South of France — through racial justice lenses more common in the United States. A key objective of the project is to document possible inequities, understand their social and spatial dimensions, and identify social and policy innovations to promote fairer working conditions. The project is currently funded by the Transatlantic Research Partnership, a program of FACE Foundation and the French Embassy, and by grants from the Zolberg Institute and the Provost’s Office at The New School. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/585889e96b8f5be324fe1406/dd07d8f1-ba6c-428f-992e-a182b4bdc12b/Alcorn+4.png What We Do - Examining the Social Equity Implications of the USDA Office of Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production's County Office and Granting Program through a Racial Equity Lens: A Pilot Study (2023-24) This study sought to address informational gaps about the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s Office of Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production (OUAIP) and additional 2018 Farm Bill urban agriculture provisions, as they relate to racial equity. The project was supported by funds from the Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers Policy Research Center at Alcorn State University, Lorman, MS. See our policy brief: Reynolds, K., Gottfried, C., & Thomas, T. 2024. Racial equity and the USDA’s Office of Urban Agriculture granting program and urban offices [Policy brief]. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development. Advance online publication, open access here. See the full report here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/585889e96b8f5be324fe1406/ead1f5db-18fe-4ab7-bf2c-6bc7e64d114f/Screenshot+2025-04-15+at+11.12.26%E2%80%AFPM.png What We Do - Heritage Grains and Food Sovereignty in France (2021-2023) As farmers seek to maintain their livelihoods and traditional agroecological practices in the context of climate change; as consumers are increasingly interested in products made from “heritage” or non-hybrid seeds, there is a potential for synergies to support food sovereignty and artisanal foods. This project, from 2021-23, examined the potentially interrelated trajectories of: farmer-led stewardship of land races of cereal grains/blés de pays and re-emerging regional markets for locally-sourced bakery products in France. Participatory research in the Parisian and Grand Est regions of France included a collaboration with the French organic agriculture organization Bio en Grand Est and through Kristin’s role as Associated Researcher at the European School of Political and Social Sciences. Read the final report/rapport final en français ici. Photo credit: Kristin Reynolds https://www.foodscholarshipjustice.org/about-intro-mojave daily 0.75 2025-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/585889e96b8f5be324fe1406/1742070490292-DIWFC4HI4UTVIRBXHK1M/fjar+lab+website+1.png About Intro https://www.foodscholarshipjustice.org/about-copy daily 0.75 2025-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/585889e96b8f5be324fe1406/1595937461082-G81DRB46CFX99ITQHJSL/marjanblan-6bXvYyAYVrE-unsplash.jpg ABOUT (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/585889e96b8f5be324fe1406/8739a825-f8d3-4d78-8789-a963e7ef8cd5/Reynolds_headshot+2022.jpg ABOUT (Copy) - KRISTIN REYNOLDS,, PH.D., Founding Director, Food and Social Justice Action Research Lab; Chair and Associate Professor, Food Studies, The New School Kristin Reynolds (she/her) is a critical food geographer based in New York City, with research focus in the US and France. Her scholarship and activism focus on informing the creation of socially just food systems in urban and rural spaces. Her first book Beyond the Kale: Urban Agriculture and Social Justice Activism in New York City, (2016; University of Georgia Press, with co-author N. Cohen), examines and highlights the work of people of color and women to create more socially just systems, and the possibilities for scholarship to support such initiatives. Her second book Radical Food Geographies: Power, Knowledge, and Resistance (2024; Bristol University Press, with co-editors Colleen Hammelman and Charles Z. Levkoe) presents critical and action-oriented approaches to addressing food systems inequities across places, spaces, and scales. As Chair and Associate Professor of Food Studies at The New School, Kristin teaches about global food systems, social justice, urban agriculture, and food policy. From 2013-2022, she taught on social justice in the global food system at Yale School of the Environment, where she is now an Affiliated Faculty at the Yale Center for Environmental Justice. She is also an associate research fellow at the European School of Political and Social Sciences in Lille, France. Kristin has worked with many community-based nonprofit organizations and small-scale farms through her research, teaching, and consulting, which have informed her founding and directing the Food and Social Justice Action Research Lab (FJAR Lab) at The New School. These include the New York City-wide Farm School NYC; Corbin Hill Food Project; Brooklyn Grange rooftop farms in Queens and Manhattan; La Finca del Sur in the South Bronx; EcoStation:NY, BK Farmyards, and Hattie Carthan Community Garden in Brooklyn; and Harlem Grown in Manhattan; as well as Soul Fire Farm in upstate New York, where she served on the founding Board of Directors from 2015-2020; the national Food Chain Workers Alliance and HEAL Food Alliance. She has led and collaborated on curriculum design at several institutions of higher education, including for a first-of-its-kind associate in science degree program in Food Studies at Hostos Community College (a part of the City University of New York and located in the South Bronx). She has served on the Board of Directors of the Levitt Foundation since 2014, and is currently Board President. Kristin holds a Ph.D. in Geography and M.S. in International Agricultural Development from the University of California, Davis, and bachelor’s degrees in International Soil and Crop Sciences and French Language and Literature from Colorado State University. She has lived and worked on numerous farms in the United States and Europe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/585889e96b8f5be324fe1406/7a92b543-0173-47b7-b218-f69cc6ff37ff/Monika+Golakoti.jpg ABOUT (Copy) - MONIKA GOLAKOTI, M.A., Lab Manager, FJAR Lab, STL, The New School; Adjunct Lecturer Sree Sushma 'Monika' Golakoti is the Lab Manager for the Food and Social Justice Action Research Lab (FJAR Lab). With a Master of Arts in General Psychology and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science, Monika combines technical expertise and passion for equity with advancing social justice and community-driven initiatives. Monika also manages research and operations at The New School’s SexTech Lab, and serves as an Adjunct Lecturer at CCNY and BMCC, bridging disciplines, fostering inclusive spaces and addressing societal challenges through research, and education. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/585889e96b8f5be324fe1406/9b82efe5-eedf-4e2f-8686-099165273f36/IMG_1820.jpg ABOUT (Copy) - KYNDAL COLEMAN, M.S. Candidate, Public Engagement Fellow, FJAR Lab, The New School Kyndal Coleman is scholar-activist from Villa Rica, Georgia. She is pursuing her master’s in Environmental Policy and Management and is a part of the 2024-2026 cohort of Public Engagement Fellows at The New School. As a graduate of the University of Georgia, she studied Environmental Economics and Management with minors in Political Science and Environmental Law. Kyndal is committed to environmental justice and is committed to doing work that bridges the gap between community, policy and academia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/585889e96b8f5be324fe1406/adb399b0-0e12-4bbd-b1ab-bedbfdeb1569/Photo+Bio+Nad%C3%A8ge-DEGBELO.jpg ABOUT (Copy) - AGOSSÈ NADÈGE DEGBELO, M.A., Doctoral Candidate, Institut National de Recherche sur l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement Agossè Nadège Degbelo is a doctoral candidate in Sociology of the Environment at the Institut National de Recherche sur l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE) in France. Affiliated with the research unit on Environment, Territories in Transition, Infrastructures, and Societies at the University of Bordeaux, her doctoral research (under the direction of Dr. Jacqueline Candau and Dr. Valérie Deldrève) examines issues of environmental justice and farmworker exposure to pesticides. Nadège also has an M.A. in Sociology from University of Bordeaux, and is working with the FJAR Lab on a project addressing inequities experienced by immigrant and racialized farmworkers in France. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/585889e96b8f5be324fe1406/5e23e593-e7f6-420a-a52c-7f431354e0c1/IMG_2735.jpg ABOUT (Copy) - CÉDRIC GOTTFRIED, M.A., Ph.D. Candidate, Public and Urban Policy; Research Assistant, Food and Social Justice Action Research Lab, FJAR Lab, The New School Cédric Gottfried is a Ph.D. candidate in Public and Urban Policy at The New School, with degrees in Cultural Heritage Management and Urban and Regional Planning. He has worked as a project manager and consultant in heritage preservation and planning. His research focuses on urban-rural interfaces, rural development, natural resources management, land use conflicts, and social equity in urban agriculture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/585889e96b8f5be324fe1406/f4141a0b-93c1-4ef6-ae12-8f793fbf97a2/Mike+Harrington.jpg ABOUT (Copy) - MIKE HARRINGTON, M.S., Sustainability Engagement Director, Tishman Environment and Design Center; Ph.D. Student, Public and Urban Policy, The New School Mike Harrington is responsible for supporting the work of the Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School by liaising with offices and departments throughout the university and implementing projects that advance the university’s commitment to sustainability and environmental justice. Before joining the TEDC team, Mike worked at Elevate Energy, organizing around creating equity in the energy efficiency market. He obtained his Master’s degree in Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management from The New School and has a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He is currently a Ph.D. student at The New School studying urban design from an environmental justice perspective. Mike is co-founder and collaborator on the “Understanding Food and Environmental Justice through Music” project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/585889e96b8f5be324fe1406/76d7b46b-15b0-4447-8fbb-4d3a2c413779/Majandra+Rodriguez+Acha.jpg ABOUT (Copy) - MAJANDRA RODRIGUEZ ACHA, M.S. Candidate, Public Engagement Fellow, FJAR Lab, The New School Majandra (Maria Alejandra) Rodriguez Acha is from Lima, Peru. She is a Public Engagement Fellow at The New School in the Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management MS. Recently, she has worked with the Youth Climate Justice Fund, the Funder’s Learning and Action Co-Laboratory on Gender and the Environment, and FRIDA | The Young Feminist Fund, as well as being a researcher on Just Transition in Peru with the World Resources Institute. Majandra is interested in interrogating and countering false solutions to the climate crisis, in exploring community-based alternatives to hegemonic paradigms, and in exploring notions of the “end of the world” and navigating hopelessness/sources of hope in the context of polycrisis, centering decolonial, anti-racist and queer ecological perspectives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/585889e96b8f5be324fe1406/825ed04a-fb1a-4725-aa5e-f8b3c07d75e2/T+Thomas+Pic.jpg ABOUT (Copy) - TAMARRA THOMAS, M.A., Adjunct Professor; and Research Assistant, FJAR Lab, The New School A graduate of NYU’s Food Studies (MA) program and The New Schools bachelor’s in Food Studies program, Tamarra Thomas has had an extensive career in food. Thomas has used her knowledge and experience to help her students and community build a stronger connection to food through historical and cultural references. 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