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  • Contributors

    • Amanda Behrens

      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>>

      Latest Blog Entries:
      • Taking the Meat We Eat Out of the Factory and Putting It Back on the Farm
      • Maryland’s Grocery Store Tax Credit Bill Could Improve Food Deserts
      • CLF’s 9th Dodge Lecturer Vandana Shiva: Sustainable Local Food is Imperative
    • Brent Kim

      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>>

      Latest Blog Entries:
      • Decline in U.S. Meat Consumption: Public Health, Environmental Implications
      • Preparing for Peak Oil, Intervening against Hunger: Expanding Local and Regional Food Systems
      • Art, Love and Agriculture: An Interview with Farmer John
    • Center for a Livable Future

      Center for a Livable Future

      Latest Blog Entries:
      • Season’s Greetings
      • Visualizer Shows Farm Bill Spending
      • Op-ed in the Baltimore Sun: A Fresh Idea for the Farm Bill
    • Chris Stevens

      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>>

      Latest Blog Entries:
      • Increasing global food security: The next gold rush?
      • Can Organic Farming Feed the World?
      • CBS Airs Follow-up Report on Antibiotic Use and Congressional Hearing
    • Christine Grillo

      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>>

      Latest Blog Entries:
      • The Air Down There: Dairy Ops in Yakima Valley, Washington
      • Swimmable and Fishable by 2020?
      • Q & A with Olivier De Schutter on the Right to Food
    • Dave Love

      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>>

      Latest Blog Entries:
      • Recirculating Farms Coalition: Fish Farms Meet Agroecology
      • India develops sound policy on antibiotic use in aquaculture and food animals
      • Pesticide use reporting bill discussed in the MD General Assembly
    • Dennis Keeney

      Dennis Keeney
      Dennis Keeney is a Visiting Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future and professor emeritus of Agronomy and Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering at Iowa State University where he served as the first director of the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture . Read More>>

      Latest Blog Entries:
      • Do Farmers Benefit from Biofuels?
      • Biofuels: Innovations Needed
      • The Cellulose Quandary
    • Jared Margulies, MS

      Jared Margulies, MS
      A former research assistant at the Center in 2008-2009, Jared returned to the CLF in his current capacity in 2011, after earning a master's of science from the University of Oxford in Biodiversity, Conservation and Management. Read More>>

      Latest Blog Entries:
      • Third Time’s the Charm? The 2012 Arsenic Roundup
      • Time to Rethink Our P?
      • Fracking and Food Systems in the Time of Peak Oil
    • Keeve Nachman

      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.

      Latest Blog Entries:
      • You’ve Got Mail: Antibiotic Resistance, Animal Ag, and More
      • Salmonella Outbreak: USDA Gets It Half-Right
    • Leo Horrigan, MHS

      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>>

      Latest Blog Entries:
      • Food Movement Tsunami: U.S. Mayors Ride the Wave
      • Film Shows We’re Drowning in a Sea of Plastic
      • Study finds new MRSA strain in European milk
    • Marlena White

      Marlena White
      Marlena is an agricultural policy research assistant at CLF, where her work focuses primarily on issues surrounding the Farm Bill. She is involved in a number of outreach and coalition-building activities for the upcoming 2012 Farm Bill renewal, and she also provides general support for CLF's agricultural policy initiatives.

      Latest Blog Entries:
      • Healthy Farms, Healthy People: You Can’t Have One Without the Other
      • EBT at Farmers’ Markets: A Win for Everyone
      • Countdown to the Farm Bill: Count Fast or You Might Miss It
    • Mia Cellucci

      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>>

      Latest Blog Entries:
      • 2011 CSA Season at JHSPH: It’s a Wrap!
      • Walmart’s Sustainable Agriculture Goals: A Critical Review
      • JHU Students Take the Real Food Challenge
    • Patti Truant

      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. Read More>>

      Latest Blog Entries:
      • Corn Ethanol: How Much Energy Are We Actually Gaining?
      • Transporting Corn Ethanol to Your Gas Tank: No Walk in the Park
      • The Genesis of Corn-Fed Cars
    • Ralph Loglisci

      Ralph Loglisci
      Ralph Loglisci is the project director for the Johns Hopkins Healthy Monday Project, the goal of which is to improve the health of the Johns Hopkins community through the delivery of evidence-based health communications campaigns with a focus on food and health behaviors.

      Latest Blog Entries:
      • Nationwide Poll: 80% of America’s Moms are Concerned About Antibiotic Use in Industrial Food Animal Production
      • Study on Drug-Resistant Staph and Store-Bought Meat: What Most News Reports Are Missing
      • U.S. Dept. of the Interior among 2,000 Sodexo clients offered Meatless Monday
    • Rebecca Klein

      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.

      Latest Blog Entries:
      • When to be grateful for an oligarchy—Or, why the Ag Committee chairs writing the Farm Bill now without a normal democratic process is likely better for public health
      • Food and Farm Policy: this is not the image and style that you’re used to
      • What is a family farm?
    • Robert Lawrence, MD

      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>>

      Latest Blog Entries:
      • South Korea’s Bold Move
      • Arsenic and Poultry: A Plea to Elected Officials
      • Hey, USDA, Who’s Your Daddy?
    • Roni Neff, PhD

      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>>

      Latest Blog Entries:
      • Peak Oil, Food Systems, Irene, Debt and Deadlines
      • Carnivores and Climate Change
      • Poultry Processing Plant Receives Maryland’s Highest Ever Fine for Occupational Safety & Health Violations
    • Sarah Rodman, MPH

      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.

      Latest Blog Entries:
      • Food Systems After Peak Oil: A Look at Cuba
      • Puget Sound Food Network Connects Locally Grown Food to Institutional Markets
      • Fair Food in Our 21st Century Economy
    • Sophia LeMaire

      Sophia LeMaire
      Sophia came to the Center for a Livable Future in June as a recent graduate of Princeton University and the recipient of a one-year fellowship in public service from Princeton's "Project 55" program. Within the Farming for the Future program, she is working on research and outreach efforts.

      Latest Blog Entries:
      • Fight the Resistance
    • Tyler Smith

      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>>

      Latest Blog Entries:
      • One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: FDA on Cephalosporin, Penicillin, and Tetracycline
      • “Not Some Rump Group”: CLF Cited in Congressional Debate on Farm Dust
      • FDA Should Come Clean on the 2010 ADUFA Data

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