Jennifer Johns, Artist in Residence
Below is the synopsis of the story that Jennifer Johns will be telling during her 18-month fellowship with food first. All of the music will be a part of this story line. I pray somewhere in your spirit this resonates with you.....
The attached song will be recording live on May 1, 2012 at La Pena in Berkeley, CA which is the kickoff of this fellowship.
William Wroblewski
William Wroblewski is a writer, journalist and documentary filmmaker based in San Francisco, California. He has written for various local, national and international publications, and was a recent contributor to the book, The Compassionate Rebel Revolution: Ordinary People Changing the World. In his video work, he has collaborated with a variety of broadcasters and organizations, including PBS, Upsidedownworld.org, North American Congress on Latin America, Pesticide Action Network and others.
Leonor Hurtado
Leonor Hurtado, Ph.D., is a native of Guatemala. She has worked defending human rights, indigenous rights and indigenous resistance to the current expansion of extractive industries. She believes that food sovereignty is the best alternative to strengthen community cultures, organization and wellbeing. Leonor has coordinated the translation of several Food First books into Spanish. She is Food First’s official photographer and resident artist.
Raj Patel
Raj Patel is no stranger to Food First. He was a Policy Analyst with the Institute from 2002 to 2004. Raj is the author of two wildly popular books on our food and economic systems, Stuffed and Starved, and the recent The Value of Nothing: How to reshape market society and redefine democracy. He regularly blogs at rajpatel.org.
Raj studied sociology, philosophy, politics and economics at Cornell University, the London School of Economics and Oxford University. After leaving Food First, Raj was a fellow at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, in Durban, South Africa, and is currently a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley in the Center for African Studies. He is the co-editor of "Promised Land: Competing Visions of Agrarian Reform," published by Food First and the Land Research Action Network.
Annie Shattuck
Annie Shattuck was a policy analyst at Food First from 2008-10. She is the co-author with Eric Holt-Giménez and Raj Patel of the Food First book, Food Rebellions!
Anders Riel Muller
Anders Riel Muller was born in South Korea and adopted to a family in rural Denmark. Over the years, Anders has worked and lived in Denmark, Canada, the US and now Korea. He was a Food First intern in 2003-2004 where he worked with Dr. Raj Patel. He has done research on agricultural trade policy, energy independence, food sovereignty, climate change and other issues related to rural sustainability.
Richard Jonasse, Ph.D.
Richard Jonasse's work with Food First has focused on international financial institutions, agroefuels, and the new Green Revolution in Africa. Dr. Jonasse is the editor of the recent Food First book Agrofuels in the Americas. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego; and a Masters from the University of Oregon.
rjonasse [at] sbcglobal [dot] net
Brahm Ahmadi
Brahm Ahmadi was born is Tehran, Iran and grew up in Los Angeles, CA. He now lives in Oakland, CA. Brahm is co-founder and Executive Director of People’s Grocery, a nonprofit food justice organization based in the low-income community of West Oakland. Brahm has a B.A. in Sociology from the University of California and is an MBA candidate at the Presidio School of Management.
Saturnino (‘Jun’) M. Borras, Jr.
Jun Borras is a political activist who has been deeply involved with autonomous rural social movements in the Philippines and internationally since the early 1980s. He was also one of the founders of the international peasant movement La Via Campesina (today’s most important transnational rural social movement) and was member of its International Coordinating Commission (ICC) from 1993 to 1996. He has also provided advice, in varying extents and capacities, to a government ministry, multilateral and bilateral development institutions, and different donor agencies.
Jonathan Fox
Jonathan Fox, Ph.D.
Latin American and Latino Studies
University of California at Santa Cruz
