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Regular and featured contributors to LivableFutureBlog are staff, faculty, fellows, students, and partners affiliated with the Center.
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Regular and featured contributors to LivableFutureBlog are staff, faculty, fellows, students, and partners affiliated with the Center.
Allison Righter, MSPH, RD
As a program officer for Eating for the Future, Allison coordinates the science advisory efforts for the Meatless Monday campaign and brings her nutritional expertise and enthusiasm to a range of other projects at the Center. Allison earned her MSPH degree in Human Nutrition and certification as a Registered Dietitian through a coordinated program at Hopkins and had previously worked at CLF as a graduate research assistant. Read More>>
Amanda Behrens
Amanda is currently managing the GIS Maryland Food System Mapping Project for the Center for a Livable Future (CLF). This project aims to geographically assess and improve the current system of food in Maryland from production to consumption. Read More>>
Brent Kim
Brent Kim is a Project Officer for the Farming for the Future program at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF). Read More>>
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Chris Stevens
Chris is director of communications for the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future. He is responsible for managing the Center’s public relations and outreach programs, including oversight of the website, LivableFutureBlog, and social media programs. Read More>>
Christine Grillo
Christine focuses on written communications projects stemming from CLF-sponsored research, events and project activities, and she is involved with social media outreach and content development for the LivableFuture blog. Read More>>
Dave Love
Dave's current research at CLF addresses industrial food animal production from the sea (i.e. aquaculture) and its potential impacts on human health and the environment. Read More>>
Keeve Nachman
Keeve currently serves as the CLF's resident expert on environmental risk assessment methodologies, chemical exposures and environmental policy and decision-making. These skills are instrumental to Keeve in his efforts to document and explain the human health impacts of food animal production. Read More>>
Leo Horrigan, MHS
Leo Horrigan is a food system correspondent for the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF). He was also involved in producing the Teaching the Food System curriculum, and as part of that project he produced a short film on sustainable food animal production entitled Out to Pasture: The Future of Farming?. Read More>>
Mia Cellucci
As Project Coordinator at the CLF, Mia Cellucci manages the Community Supported Agriculture Project, coordinates the Center’s many events, and assists with a multi-year food systems research project on the northeastern United States. She also serves as a content and design resource for the Communications team. Read More>>
Patti Truant
Patti is a research assistant and doctoral fellow with the Center for a Livable Future. She has a degree in journalism from the University of Maryland, an MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and she has held positions at the Center for Science in the Public Interest and the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Research and Development.
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Rebecca Klein
Becca is the Public Health & Agriculture Policy Project Director for the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF). Her passion for food and nutrition developed in undergrad during a nutritional anthropology class, which became her major at Hampshire College.Read More>>
Robert Lawrence, MD
Bob is the Center for a Livable Future Professor and Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Health Policy, and International Health at the Bloomberg School of Public Health and Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. In 1996 he became the founding director of Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF). Read More>>
Roni Neff, PhD
Roni is Research and Policy Director of Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF) and is on faculty at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. Read More>>
Sarah Rodman, MPH
Sarah Rodman began working at the Center for a Livable Future as a Johns Hopkins 2010 MPH candidate in the department of Environmental Health. She continues to work at CLF, now a doctoral student in the Department of Health, Policy and Management.
Tyler Smith
With a background in public policy, advocacy and campaign work, Tyler joined CLF full-time in 2011 as a senior research and policy associate. Read More>>